Alexander Kluge Movies

In antiquity, a mariner or hunter could identify 6000 stars with his naked eye. Modern astrophysics now researches trillions of stars, galaxies and...

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

Homage to Anselm Kiefer.

Footage of Donald J. Trump visiting Vladimir Putin et al. overlain with circus performer animatronics.

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

Documentary showing the coaches of the French Revolution and more.

The domain of love is intimacy. It orients itself on the individual and the specific. At the same time, it is in fact less individual than one might...

On the subject of circuses during wartime, illustrations and more are shown.

Directed by Alexander Kluge

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

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

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

A short by Alexander Kluge.

The moon, born from the ribs of the earth, has been its companion for billions of years. It is gradually moving away from us at a rate of several...

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

A monkey reminisces about King Kong

In a timely precursor, this 40 minute talk sees Alexander Kluge and Joseph Vogl return to their customary roles. Kluge feigns the curious lay reader....

Recordings of elephants in the wild and various graphs lain atop.