Alexander Kluge

Since the 1960s, Alexander Kluge has given a decisive flair to cinema, television and literature. After having been Fritz Lang's assistant, encountered through the intermediary of Adorno, he initiated the Oberhausen manifesto and its famous motto 'Papas kino ist tot' ('Papa's cinema is dead'). According to the writer W.G. Sebald, Kluge's work offers 'the detailed description of the social organisation of disaster'. His principle of 'editing-assembling' makes his films resemble building sites in which the spectator's activity is stimulated. He thus favours a fragmented documentary form and enters into topical debates, as in War and Peace, a collective film on the missile crisis. The creation of his production agency in 1985 enabled him to continue his social criticism through reports and magazines.

All the sessions are subtitled in French.