Alexander Kluge Movies

Kluge here presents a portrait of Friedrich the Great by means of quotations, film clips, historical images, and film documents. The program is a...

An homage to Francis Bacon and Georg Baselitz.

Alexander Kluge, the legendary German theorist and writer, student under Adorno and Horkheimer, a lawyer for the Frankfurter Schule, and paramount...

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

An old building in Venice hosts an exhibition. A visitor walks through empty rooms discovering a fictionalized architectural space that functions...

Finale No. 1 in Bellini's Masterpiece Norma

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...

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

Wer immer hofft stirbt singend is a bagatelle bordering on the burlesque, in which Kluge combines (historical) visual material and nostalgic images...

With the painter Gerhard Richter.

Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have everything, grasp everything, know...

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...

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

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

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

Movie scenes, montages of images and text, as well as conversations between Alexander Kluge, playwright Heiner Müller and classicist Wilfried...

The horizon of this conversation is marked by Müller's personal memories, reflections about ongoing themes in his work, thoughts about his...

In this journal, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller talk about the dark side and the inevitability of democracy. Heiner Müller believes that...

Short collage film regarding the history of philosophy.