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Germany, 2008, 570 minutes. Documentary/essay anthology film. German with English subtitles
Writer/Director: Alexander Kluge, Cinematography: Michael Christ, Erich Harandt, Werner Lüring, Claudia Marcell, Heribert Kansy, Thomas Mauch, Thomas Willke, Walter Lennertz, Editor: Kajetan Forstner, Andreas Kern
Presented in its entirety as a 9.5 hour "marathon" screening / Installation.
Guests are encouraged to bring pillows/cushions for extra comfort.
Refreshments will be served throughout the event.
Over the course of 570 minutes (three DVDs), Alexander Kluge works his way through the “ideological antiquity”, inspired by Sergei Eisenstein’s unfulfilled plan to film Marx’s “Das Kapital“. Eisenstein’s art of montage and Marx’s critique of the trade in commodities are fundamental bases of modernity – yet we have lost touch with modernity just as we have lost touch with antiquity. What can Marx and Eisenstein tell us about our current cultural and social production, Kluge wonders, but because it’s Kluge asking, there are many answers and even more new questions.
Presented in cooperation with Human Resources LA and Los Angeles Filmforum within the context of the Goethe-Institut project MARX NOW
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