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Early Alexander Kluge short film that follows the career of a German policeman from World War I into the 1960s.
Policeman's Lot
Nine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was...
Germany in Autumn
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Mrs. Blackburn, born in 1872, i.e. before the history of cinema began, is Alexander Kluge's grandmother. Portrait of this lady.
Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt
Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady...
The Big Mess
A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the...
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death
Willi endeavors to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that...
Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet
Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929
Emotions and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. The film...
The Power of Emotion
The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter...
The Indomitable Leni Peickert
The third episodic film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German filmmakers reflect on the state of their country. A...
War and Peace
An old building in Venice hosts an exhibition. A visitor walks through empty rooms discovering a fictionalized architectural space that functions...
The Leaks of Venice
A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.
Yesterday Girl
Heterotopie der Oper
A talk with Alexander Kluge and Jean-Luc Godard.
Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!
Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical...
The Patriotic Woman
Short science fiction film, a companion piece to Kluge's Der Große Verhau and Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte.
Spaceflight as an Internal Experience
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...
Looking for a Practical and Realistic Behaviour
The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups...
Strongman Ferdinand