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...

Heiner Müller was invited to a conference in Japan on the fate of opera in the 20th and 21st century. He talks about his flight over Siberia and...

In 1989, Heiner Müller staged an unabridged seven-and-a-half hour Hamlet, because in the process of German reunification "a leave-taking from...

A few months before his death, Müller responded to the keywords "breathing" and "smoking" with an anecdote that interprets breathing as an...

Alexander Kluge and Hartmut Bitomsky discuss the film Staub (Dust). Dust is called “matter in the wrong place.” In fact, dust is an...

Triptych collage film regarding the history of revolution.

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

16 of Alexander Kluge's one-minute films.

A short film by Alexander Kluge.

Documentary short by Alexander Kluge about the role of teachers in history.

An essay from Edison's famous 1903 short film recording the execution by electricity of a tame elephant from Coney Island's Forepaugh Circus.

Film about the Paper Tiger Television non-profit, low-budget public access television program and open media collective based in New York City.

Heiner Müller defines Stoicism as an attempt to deal with anarchy. For him, Erich Honecker is an example for "forced stoicism". Müller...

The Cold War is peaking again in divided Germany in the early 1980s. How to deal with the upcoming nuclear annihilation shows this Alexander Kluge...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

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

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

Kluge’s short-film starring his sister/muse Alexandra.