Alexander Kluge Movies

  • 2007
    Multiple Images for Five Projectors

    Multiple Images for Five Projectors

    Multiple Images for Five Projectors

    02007HD

    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...

    Multiple Images for Five Projectors
  • 2008
    Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie

    Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie

    Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie

    02008HD

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

    Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie
  • 2006
    The Deadly Triangle

    The Deadly Triangle

    The Deadly Triangle

    02006HD

    A short film by Alexander Kluge.

    The Deadly Triangle
  • 2007
    The Magic of the Darkened Soul

    The Magic of the Darkened Soul

    The Magic of the Darkened Soul

    02007HD

    The Magic of the Darkened Soul
  • 2007
    Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!

    Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!

    Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!

    02007HD

    Mein Jahrhundert, mein Tier!
  • 2025
    Primitive Diversity

    Primitive Diversity

    Primitive Diversity

    02025HD

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

    Primitive Diversity
  • 1989
    Paper Tiger Television, New York

    Paper Tiger Television, New York

    Paper Tiger Television, New York

    01989HD

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

    Paper Tiger Television, New York
  • 1997
    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot

    01997HD

    The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material. Müller answers with...

    The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot
  • 1996
    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

    Heiner Müller in Time Flight

    01996HD

    Müller describes Ovid's Metamorphoses, Golding's translation of which (1603) was one of Shakespeare's sources, as an encyclopedia of the Greek...

    Heiner Müller in Time Flight
  • 1995
    Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

    Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

    Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day

    01995HD

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

    Queen of Hearts on Judgment Day
  • 1995
    Omnivore Democracy

    Omnivore Democracy

    Omnivore Democracy

    01995HD

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

    Omnivore Democracy
  • 1995
    The Voice of the Playwright

    The Voice of the Playwright

    The Voice of the Playwright

    01995HD

    One of Müllers's vocal cords was paralyzed as a result of a life-saving radical operation (1995). At the beginning of the discussion Müller...

    The Voice of the Playwright
  • 1995
    My Rendezvous with Death

    My Rendezvous with Death

    My Rendezvous with Death

    01995HD

    The title of the interview is from a line in a poem written by an American about the battle of Ypern in World War I: “My rendezvous with Death...

    My Rendezvous with Death
  • 1994
    The World is Not Bad, but Full

    The World is Not Bad, but Full

    The World is Not Bad, but Full

    01994HD

    The central topic of the interview is the ancient concept of a necessary balance between the dead and the living, which also assumes the notion of a...

    The World is Not Bad, but Full
  • 1993
    Anti-Opera

    Anti-Opera

    Anti-Opera

    01993HD

    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...

    Anti-Opera
  • 1993
    The Death of Seneca

    The Death of Seneca

    The Death of Seneca

    01993HD

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

    The Death of Seneca
  • 1993
    The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans

    01993HD

    A news magazine program on important aspects of the history of postrevolutionary Cuba, consisting of two documentary film sequences about Castro and...

    The Last of the Mohicans
  • 1993
    Mind, Power, Castration

    Mind, Power, Castration

    Mind, Power, Castration

    01993HD

    Here Müller and Kluge explicitly address a theme that is latently present in many of their conversations: the relation of intellectuals to...

    Mind, Power, Castration
  • 1991
    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy

    01991HD

    At the time of the conversation Heiner Müller was the president of the Academy of Arts - East. At the beginning he describes his daily routine...

    Every Frozen Structure has its Academy
  • 1990
    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions

    01990HD

    "The metaphor is cleverer than the author" (Lichtenberg), a "screen," an "instrument for bundling" (Müller), because "everything changes so...

    Heiner Müller on Legal Questions