Alexander Kluge Movie Trailers
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Some Kind of Shadow Machines Were Passing by Trailer (1990)
22 July 1990
In this interview Müller and Kluge explore the East German’s memories of the final days of the war.
The Poetic Power of Theory Trailer (2007)
07 February 2007
The Poetic Power of Theory: Aristotle, Heidegger, Spinoza, Marx, Nietzsche, Kant ("What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?").
Spaceflight as an Internal Experience Trailer (1999)
08 August 1999
Short science fiction film, a companion piece to Kluge's Der Große Verhau and Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6.
Anti-Opera Trailer (1993)
06 December 1993
Heiner Müller was invited to a conference in Japan on the fate of opera in the 20th and 21st century.
La Paloma Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
A reference to the song of the same name, which carries the motif of "La Paloma" (the dove) and can be traced back to an episode that occurred in 492 BC, before Darius' invasion of Greece, a time when the white dove had not yet been seen in Europe.
Miscellaneous News Trailer (1986)
25 September 1986
A drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II, minorities, and the elderly.
The Mammoth’s Homecoming, a Composition of Th. W. Adorno in the Year 1941 Trailer (2020)
01 January 2020
Adorno is not just a theorist and philosopher, he was also a composer and student of Alban Berg in Vienna.
...Geist und ein wenig Glück Trailer (1965)
14 June 1965
Documentary about the current state of German cinema. Produced for German television.
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias Trailer (2018)
17 February 2018
For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has explored, as a practitioner and theoretician, the rules and limits of cinema, which he always seeks to break and extend in new ways.
E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
Kluge’s short-film starring his sister/muse Alexandra.
Als die Himmel noch miteinander sprachen Trailer (2011)
31 December 2011
In late antiquity, the religions were not yet rigidly opposed to each other, so that Christian apocrypha, the Babylonian Talmund and the Koran reveal spiritual diversity.
The Death of Seneca Trailer (1993)
26 April 1993
Citing Nietzsche, Müller describes the motive of the philologist as "greed," "simply wanting to have everything, grasp everything, know everything.
People Preparing the Staufer Anniversary Trailer (1977)
23 April 1977
Alexander Kluge documents the preparations for an exhibition on the Staufer dynasty.
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time Trailer (1985)
31 October 1985
A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.
The Night of the Filmmakers Trailer (1995)
12 February 1995
A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.
Max Horkheimer – Philosopher and Sociologist Trailer (2024)
15 June 2024
An homage to Max Horkheimer.
The World is Not Bad, but Full Trailer (1994)
21 November 1994
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 constant potential for force in the world.
Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge Trailer (2012)
03 February 2012
In a conversation with Heiner Müller, Alexander Kluge asked him to say what kind of thing, animal, job, whatever.
Nuits transparentes Trailer (2011)
14 April 2011
Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).
An Opera That Sparked a Revolution Trailer (2024)
04 July 2024
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 by a prince.
Nach jedem Untergang kommt ein Dampfer Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
A short film by Alexander Kluge.
For Vertov Trailer (1998)
01 January 1998
Alexander Kluge's tribute to Soviet master Dziga Vertov, displaying a collage of stills from Vertov's work on the screen of a white round TV set to the sound of brass music and percussion.
He Who Hopes, Dies Singing Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
Wer immer hofft stirbt singend is a bagatelle bordering on the burlesque, in which Kluge combines (historical) visual material and nostalgic images of various disasters with very graphically elaborated title card texts.
The Klimperclown Trailer (2025)
07 August 2025
A mockumentary about the life of the german musician and comedian Helge Schneider
Brutality in Stone Trailer (1961)
08 February 1961
In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind.
Nachrichten von den Staufern Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
Alexander Kluge reflects on the medieval Staufer dynasty and draws a line from Emperor Barbarossa to Operation Barbarossa.
Protocol of a Revolution Trailer (1963)
18 October 1963
The story of a revolution in a Caribbean insular state.
Attack on a Thick Glass Door Trailer (2024)
04 July 2024
A glass door prevents the occupation of a room.
The Indomitable Leni Peickert Trailer (1970)
29 March 1970
The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed.
The Eiffel Tower, King Kong and the White Woman Trailer (1988)
26 December 1988
King Kong appears in various collages of a white cruise ship; meanwhile, a victory has been won and photographed in France in November 1918, and someone in a cartoon has stolen the Eiffel Tower, which now stands over an abyss in the American West.
An Experiment in Love Trailer (1998)
09 August 1998
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 camp supervisors to manipulate two imprisoned Jews to engage in sexual intercourse in order to test sterilization measures.
Primitive Diversity Trailer (2025)
03 February 2025
Thanks to technological developments, film has been through many transformations. Now, with the development of Artificial Intelligence another begins.
Cosmic Miniatures Trailer (2024)
25 January 2024
At 91 years of age, Alexander Kluge is solidly regarded as a trailblazing figure in New German Cinema and the avant-garde.
Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour Trailer (1983)
01 October 1983
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 short.
Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn) Trailer (2024)
27 June 2024
An homage to Francis Bacon and Georg Baselitz.
SnowwhiteRosered Trailer (1991)
24 October 1991
Documentary about the twin sister Jutta and Gisela Schmidt. In the late sixties the two women rebelled against middle class society as if they gave vent to a new kind of art.
Planetary Man Trailer (2024)
27 June 2024
A commentary on Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, Panel B, Picture 9.
The Journey to Vienna Trailer (1973)
26 September 1973
Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.
Beginnings of Film Art Trailer (2024)
11 July 2024
Alexander Kluge reflects on Eadweard Muybridge's work and the first modern Olympics.
Wim Wenders, Desperado Trailer (2020)
16 July 2020
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German Cinema and one of the most important and influential representatives of contemporary cinema.
The Indian Tomb Trailer (1959)
05 March 1959
Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays the law of hospitality and reveals their location to Prince Ramigani.
The Poet as Metaphor Slingshot Trailer (1997)
16 June 1997
The point of departure for this discussion is the question of whether the collapse of the Soviet Union is dramatic material.
The Tiger of Eschnapur Trailer (1959)
21 January 1959
In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah's favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah's friend but their friendship is tested when the architect and the dancer fall in-love, triggering the Maharajah's vengeful ire.
Chicago in Time Lapse Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
"At the beginning of the 19th century there is no Chicago. There was a fort that was set on fire by Indians shortly thereafter.