Alexander Kluge Movies

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

A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.

The conversation begins on the topic of Müller’s plans for new plays. Müller tells us that he has promised to write a libretto for...

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...

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

Müller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare's sources, as an encyclopedia of the Greek...

Homage to Anselm Kiefer.

Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversations: the relation of intellectuals to...

Thanks to technological developments, film has been through many transformations. Now, with the development of Artificial Intelligence another...

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

Early short by Alexander Kluge.

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...

A monkey reminisces about King Kong

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

At the time of the conversation Heiner Müller was the president of the Academy of Arts - East. At the beginning he describes his daily routine...

Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.

Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron Age, talk about the modern style of Tacitus'...

The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups...

Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebelled against middle class society as if they gave...