Alexander Kluge Movies

Ads for defunct and foreign products are interspersed with newsreel and documentary footage. The result is a distanced view of the link between...

Scenes from Nabucco (1842), I due foscari (1844), Macbeth (1847), Luisa Miller (1849), Il trovatore (1853), La traviata (1853), Les vépres...

Film by Alexander Kluge.

For those who take part in motor racing, it is incomprehensible that, for example, horse riding is a medal sport at the Olympics, but for racing...

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

The death of the crew of Russia's modern nuclear submarine Kursk reminds the public of previous fatal disasters. There have been collisions between...

A reading by Alexander Kluge.

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

The playwright Heiner Müller had a favorite book in his final year of life: "Post-Heroic Management" by Dirk Baecker. What does "post-heroic"...

Song from 1932: "From the North Pole to the South Pole, it's just a short hop." The case of a famous pilot's suicide. A grand total of twelve musical...

Alexander Kluge's 2012 Frankfurt lectures on poetics.

Love stories with unhappy endings, love stories with happy endings. From Romeo and Juliet in Frankfurt to the "Selfless Virgin in New York", from the...

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

Many of the greatest dramas feature a young woman who, trapped in the fatal triangle formed by the father, daughter and seducer, is killed. But there...

Alexander Kluge's avant-garde hommage to Manoel de Oliveira's surreal opera-musical film "The Cannibals".

With over 200 years it has been considered that romantic relationships must be spontaneous. This is paradoxical insofar as the imperative form "must"...

The DNA of animals and humans are among the most cutting-edge products of evolution. In living bodies, it occurs folded up and in condensed...

Documentary short about the stage play "Wessis in Weimar"

His prose text "An Attempt at Love", published in 1962, can be classified in the prehistory of the Auschwitz trials and deals with the attempt by the...