FILM
Alexander Kluge, 1983, 115’
“The cinema is the public seat of feelings in the 20th century. The organization is set up thusly: Even sad feelings have a happy outcome in the cinema. It is about finding comfort: In the 19th century the opera house was the home to feelings. An overwhelming majority of operas had a tragic end.
FILM
Alexander Kluge, 1985, 113’
“We speak about the opera of the 19th century; it is considered the summit of dramatic art.
FILM
Alexander Kluge, 2008, 570’
“If, in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises from their historical lifeprocess as the inversion of objects on the retina does from their physical life-process.”