Alexander Kluge Movies
- 2000
The Execution of an Elephant
The Execution of an Elephant5.32000HD
An essay from Edison's famous 1903 short film recording the execution by electricity of a tame elephant from Coney Island's Forepaugh Circus.
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- 2024
An Opera That Sparked a Revolution
An Opera That Sparked a Revolution02024HD
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...
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- 1996
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded
He Who Smokes Looks Cold-Blooded01996HD
A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an...
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- 2006
Storm Over Egypt
Storm Over Egypt02006HD
A short by Alexander Kluge.
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- 2011
Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen
Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen02011HD
In late antiquity, the religions were not yet rigidly opposed to each other, so that Christian apocrypha, the Babylonian Talmund and the Koran reveal...
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- 1996
Engine Cough
Engine Cough01996HD
A short film by Alexander Kluge.
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- 1994
I Owe the World a Dead Person
I Owe the World a Dead Person01994HD
In order to justify interpreting the Oresteia as a representation of the "birth of democracy" (P. Stein), one has to repress a lot, for example the...
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- 2017
Parsifal verlernen
Parsifal verlernen02017HD
An opera film by Alexander Kluge
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- 2020
The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941
The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 194102020HD
Adorno is not just a theorist and philosopher, he was also a composer and student of Alban Berg in Vienna. The text of the short song goes:...
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- 2018
Happy Lamento
Happy Lamento02018HD
On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines’ internationally most...
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- 2013
Theorie der Erzählung
Theorie der Erzählung02013HD
Alexander Kluge's 2012 Frankfurt lectures on poetics.
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- 2006
The Deadly Triangle
The Deadly Triangle02006HD
A short film by Alexander Kluge.
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- 2024
Attack on a Thick Glass Door
Attack on a Thick Glass Door02024HD
A glass door prevents the occupation of a room.
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- 2022
In the Rock of Signs
In the Rock of Signs02022HD
Homage to Anselm Kiefer.
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- 2007
Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!
Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!02007HD
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- 2012
Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand
Mensch 2.0 – Die Evolution in unserer Hand62012HD
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- 2020
Werewolves Playoffs
Werewolves Playoffs02020HD
Video #1 of Finite Rants, a series of eight visual essays commissioned by Fondazione Prada and curated by Luigi Alberto Cippini and Niccolò...
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- 1999
He Who Hopes, Dies Singing
He Who Hopes, Dies Singing01999HD
Wer immer hofft stirbt singend is a bagatelle bordering on the burlesque, in which Kluge combines (historical) visual material and nostalgic images...
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- 1993
Plowshare of Evil
Plowshare of Evil01993HD
Citing Nietzsche, Müller defines intellectuals as the "ploughshares of evil," whose task it is "to create chaos, to destroy conceptions of...
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- 2018
The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises
The Revolution is a Creature Full of Surprises02018HD
Triptych collage film regarding the history of revolution.
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