Alexander Kluge Movies

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...

Animatronics, elephants, puppets, politicians, and more juxtaposed using three screens.

Thinking for oneself means: Seeking the touchstone of truth in one's own self. In his essay "What does it mean to orient oneself in thinking?" from...

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...

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

The British college tutor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly discusses the wartime deeds of fearless women. She also characterizes the male fantasies of...

Nobel Prize winner Prof. Dr. Eric R. Kandel from Columbia University, New York, is considered the "Einstein of brain research". In the year 2000 he...

Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to create chaos, to destroy conceptions of...

Documentary showing the coaches of the French Revolution and more.

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...

Film by Alexander Kluge.

The way in which massacres occur in modern warfare has often been described. "Morale Bombing" also took place in the zoological gardens. The...

A new version of Nipp and Tuck (Del Ruth / Sennett, 1923)

A short by Alexander Kluge.

The moon, born from the ribs of the earth, has been its companion for billions of years. It is gradually moving away from us at a rate of several...

Triptych collage film regarding the history of revolution.

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

Alexander Kluge's tribute to Soviet master Dziga Vertov, displaying a collage of stills from Vertov's work on the screen of a white round TV set to...