Alexander Kluge Movies

Place and Time Without Reason Is Violence

Film about the Paper Tiger Television non-profit, low-budget public access television program and open media collective based in New York City.

As indicated in the subtitle Tiehrmehlfabrikant Dr. Fred Eicke weiss Auswege, this work centres on the animal food producer Fred Eicke (a part played...

On Love’s Struggle through the Millennia. A chat between Alexander Kluge and Miriam Hansen through the prism of Griffith's INTOLERANCE.

In a timely precursor, this 40 minute talk sees Alexander Kluge and Joseph Vogl return to their customary roles. Kluge feigns the curious lay reader....

The discussion begins with the parable of a frog in boiling water. It comes from the book "Post-heroic Management: A Manual" by Dirk Baecker, which...

Short collage film regarding the history of philosophy.

Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller...

Wer immer hofft stirbt singend is a bagatelle bordering on the burlesque, in which Kluge combines (historical) visual material and nostalgic images...

Alice Schneider redecorates her house.

In 1912 the Titanic sunk. In retrospect the event appears like a number that refers to the subsequent catastrophes of the 20th century. Hans Magnus...

Short science fiction film with footage from Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte.

An officer of the Stasi (East German secret police) on a special mission ("OibE") reveals all about his experiences during the crisis of October and...

Dusk at a construction site situated at the foot of where the Twin Towers once stood: "Public wounds heal slowly."

Kluge compares with three screens with clips, stills, storyboards of the two works.

Directed by Alexander Kluge

The domain of love is intimacy. It orients itself on the individual and the specific. At the same time, it is in fact less individual than one might...

One of Müllers's vocal cords was paralyzed as a result of a life-saving radical operation (1995). At the beginning of the discussion Müller...

Opera stars face daunting competitive pressure. It's thus not unusual for some of the best among them to seek to improve their performance by...