Kluge Film Series at Stanford University

You are invited to a Spring series of films by Alexander Kluge, beginning Wednesday, April 21 at 7 p.m. in Cubberly Auditorium. Kluge, a well-known critic and theorist of the new media and the public sphere, and the winner of nearly every major German literary award, has also been one of the most important film directors in

Germany for more than 40 years, as well New German FilmÂ’s leading organizational and political voice. The series includes six films

from the time of KlugeÂ’s most intense engagement with cinematic form, a period in which Kluge--combining documentary material with fictional characters, techniques from silent film and from the Russian Avant-Garde, and strong commitments to Adorno and Critical Theory with his own idiosyncratic formal sensibility--developed his rich, allusive, and unmistakable film style. The films are in German, with English subtitles.

This series is sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center, and the Stanford Departments of Comparative Literature, Communication, German Studies, and Art.