Alexander Kluge Movies

A short by Alexander Kluge.

An homage to Hans Richter for the 35th anniversary of his death in 2021.

Destinies and emotion: An eagle kidnaps a child; a tiger saves a persecuted woman; a lieutenant robs a maiden of her innocence; a young lady must...

The metropolises in Mesopotamia (Uruk, Babylon), the city in Greek antiquity (Athens), the founding of Rome and the Celtic castle sites (oppida)...

The Poetic Power of Theory: Aristotle, Heidegger, Spinoza, Marx, Nietzsche, Kant ("What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?"). Seven examples...

With pictures by James Ensor and Alexander Kluge. The opera The Mute Girl of Portici tells the story of a young mute woman in Naples who is seduced...

Alexander Kluge reflects on Eadweard Muybridge's work and the first modern Olympics.

Oiran were the beautiful and educated courtesans of Edo, the capital of the Japanses Shogun; the city which is now called Tokyo. In her feature film...

Alice Schneider redecorates her house.

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

A monkey reminisces about King Kong

The theme here is the rapid development from the beginning of the universe to the Gauls. At the half-way stage of this development, the Sahara became...

In late antiquity, the religions were not yet rigidly opposed to each other, so that Christian apocrypha, the Babylonian Talmund and the Koran reveal...

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

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...

Finale No. 1 in Bellini's Masterpiece Norma

Place and Time Without Reason Is Violence

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 point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with...