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This year-long, rotating exhibition presents five sequential constellations of eight films each by the eminent German director Alexander Kluge. Compiled by Kluge especially for this occasion, these presentations feature selections of recent Minutenfilme – short, hybrid films that typically run from one to eight minutes each. Ranging from the theoretical to the operatic, from the cosmic to the mathematical, Kluge offers an often ironic yet candid social commentary on historical and contemporary events.

In his Minutenfilme, Alexander Kluge has developed a single-minded way of filmmaking in which complex ideas are condensed into a few minutes. To achieve this, the director uses highly idiosyncratic ways of editing in which a plethora of images and sounds are brought together from a wide variety of sources and collaborators. In so doing, Kluge imagines an active role for the viewer: “The viewers are the medium, what they cannot imagine neither can exist in the medium.”

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about the artist

Alexander Kluge (1932) is a German writer of non-fiction and fiction, a leading filmmaker, television pioneer, and public intellectual. After assisting Fritz Lang on Der Tiger von Eschnapur (1959), he subsequently became one of the most prominent representatives of the New German Cinema. His Minutenfilme correspond with films of nine to ten hours length, such as News from Ideological Antiquity – Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital(2008) and Dancing With Pictures (2017).

more information

www.kluge-alexander.de - www.dctp.tv

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Minutenfilme #2:

• Das Weltall Schläft Auf Seinem Riesenohr (The Universe Sleeps On Its Giant Ear)
  (05:37)
  
• Kosmische Music (Cosmic Music)
  (04:03)
  
• Sieben Milliarden Jahre Wie Ein Tag (7 Billion Years Like One Day)
  (02:10)
• Wie Heult Das Wüste Bellen Der Tollen Stürm‘ Uns An / Mit Raketenstart Der Apollo-Rakete Vom 16. Juli 1969 (How Wild A Roar We Hear Of Rabid Hurricanes / With The Start Of The Apollo Rocket On 16 July, 1969)
  (05:18)
• Lagergeld (Concentration Camp Money)
  (03:28)
  
• Drei Fragmente Zur Oper Dafne Von Peri Und Ein Fragment Zu Daphne Von Heinrich Schütz. Mit Sir Henry Am Klavier (Dafne Fragments From Peri To Schütz. With Sir Henry At The Piano)
  (05:19)
  
• Festwagen Der Französischen Revolution (Festival Cars Of The Great French Revolution)
  (01:46)
  
• Lehrgang Für Junglehrerinnen, 1920 (A Course For Fledgling Teachers, 1920)
  (02:08)

This exhibition takes place in the framework of Festival der Kooperationen mit Alexander Kluge at Literaturhaus Berlin and is organised in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Brüssel.

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