Alexander Kluge Movies

The story of the Argentine tango star Carlos Gardel is retold in a (computer graphic) theater in which his 1935 movie is projected. If the tango is...

Fire brigades and rescue teams are the heroes of a disaster. They often save people's lives while risking their own. So it must have been terribly...

Originally the marching song "The Flag on High," which had been part of Germany's national anthem, had an entirely different text. The song actually...

The very first tanks, which appeared on the battlefield of WWI in 1915, were called "Little Willi" and "Mother". It seemed they had not yet been...

Lung fish and lions, nightingales and whales express themselves through sounds - they "sing". But humans alone have developed...

A reference to the song of the same name, which carries the motif of "La Paloma" (the dove) and can be traced back to an episode that occurred in 492...

Homage to Anselm Kiefer.

Documentary short about the stage play "Wessis in Weimar"

The faces of humans and monkeys have 50 muscles. They are necessary for facial expression, laughing, and crying: 60 million years of evolution were...

Not unlike reindeer there was something in these people - yet not what they wanted or intended - that was more intelligent than them. There is no...

A commentary on Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, Panel B, Picture 9.

Video #1 of Finite Rants, a series of eight visual essays commissioned by Fondazione Prada and curated by Luigi Alberto Cippini and Niccolò...

This video segment complements the 2014 English-language edition of History and Obstinacy by Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt, edited by Devin Fore and...

Kluge here presents a portrait of Friedrich the Great by means of quotations, film clips, historical images, and film documents. The program is a...

Murder ballads, ballads, and newspaper images tell humane and terrible stories. Dr. Ulrike Spengler, who compiled the Proust ABC, reports on "the...

Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio: Why does this person speak and not sing? He longs to sing. Singing generally emerges when language becomes...

Lilo Wanders as Countess Orlovska in the Polish resistance in 1944. She kills German officers after having given these young men pleasure in the...

The master Russian director Sergei Eisenstein planned in 1928 to make a film about Das Kapital by Marx. Is the "political economy" made up of...

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

We see the celebration of New Year's Eve with fireworks in 1988, repeated exactly in 1923, in 1908, and in munitions explosions in 1812, as well as...