Alexander Kluge Movies

Finale No. 1 in Bellini's Masterpiece Norma

A short by Alexander Kluge.

Mata Hari and the Danish baroness Carla Jesse are among the most powerful women in the history of espionage. Carla Jesse's method was the kiss of...

Falling debris from space poses a danger to aircraft for which valid insurance policies have been taken out. Such cases as this are, among others,...

Triptych collage film regarding the history of revolution.

Did the primal ocean originally cover the entire planet? What happened to organic life during and after the great ice age, which is sometimes called...

The Europeans were shocked by the Asian gunmen running amok in the 19th century: The perpetrators acted like "misanthropists," killing friend and foe...

Since German Classicism, it has become customary to translate extreme, emotional events into a ballad, a popular form of song. This ‘Balladen...

Images from the Versailles summit in 1982 and from the summit at the Munich Residence in 1992: The leaders and their men. Also, images from the "hot...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

Selected scenes from the Christoph Schlingensief revue at the Berliner Volksbühne .

The playwright Heiner Müller had a favorite book in his final year of life: "Post-Heroic Management" by Dirk Baecker. What does "post-heroic"...

The film is both a representation of the installation elements (tiled mosaics of images projected on four walls and the ceiling of a gallery) and a...

Paul Klee and Walter Benjamin described an "angel of history." The heavy gale blowing in from paradise propels this angel into the future. The movie...

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

Alexander Kluge's avant-garde hommage to Manoel de Oliveira's surreal opera-musical film "The Cannibals".

Opera stars face daunting competitive pressure. It's thus not unusual for some of the best among them to seek to improve their performance by...