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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
A talk with Alexander Kluge and Jean-Luc Godard.
Blinde Liebe/Jean-Luc Godard: Meine Mutter hat nur Stummfilme gesehen!
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Auf Messers Schneide: das Jahr 1929
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
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
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
Early Alexander Kluge short film that follows the career of a German policeman from World War I into the 1960s.
Policeman's Lot
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
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
Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?
Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she...
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
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
Utopie der Oper
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
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
On the one hand, the beyond-Tropicália surreal, wild, ecstatic universe of Khavn de la Cruz, the Philippines’ internationally most...
Happy Lamento
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
Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and...
The Candidate
A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time