Phoenix Cinema. Part IV. Alexander Kluge and the Art World

Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Tuesday, June 18 at 7pm for Alexander Kluge and the Art World, the fourth and closing event of Phoenix Cinema: Meeting with Alexander Kluge, a special series featuring works by and discussions with the filmmaker and author. This evening focuses on Kluge’s participation in the modern and contemporary art world, highlighting his collaborations with, and homages to, Hans Richter, Sarah Morris, Katharina Grosse, Jonathan Meese, and Anselm Kiefer. The evening will feature Kluge’s short films, homages to his artist friends, personal stories, and moving-image collaborations, showcasing his interdisciplinary approach to filmmaking and his profound influence across artistic fields.

This event will present a selection of Kluge’s films, including pre-recorded commentary by Kluge and an in-person conversation with Sarah Morris.

Films

Films
With pre-recorded commentary by Alexander Kluge and in-person conversation with Sarah Morris

Four films produced for e-flux
Planetary Man / Commentary on Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, Panel B, Picture 9 (3:40’)
The Dramatist Heiner Müller / …and His List of the Great Dead from Theory, Revolution, and the Workers’ Movement… (5:28’)
Our Ancestor and the Globe (3:19’)
Eomaia (Mother of the Dawn) / Homage to Francis Bacon and Georg Baselitz (3:41’)

Cinema installations by Jonathan Meese in collaboration with Alexander Kluge
Hagen von Trola Kinoz (2:29’)
Saint Just Kino 03 (3:45’)

Collaboration with Hans Richter
Zirkus, Richter’s Tango (2:24’)

Collaboration with Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Röde
The Circus is Coming to Town / With glass panels by Kerstin Brätsch (6:40’)

From the Separatrix project with Katharina Grosse
L for Leibniz (3:01’)
Colors and Mathematics (1:37’)
Four Stages for Alexander Kluge (2:53’)

Films with Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter
For Anselm Kiefer – In the Rock of Signs (3:39’)
Homage to Anselm Kiefer / String Cinema – Mathematical Minute Opera (2’)
Happy Roots from Non-Identity / With the painter Gerhard Richter (4:01’)

Collaboration with Thomas Hartmann
The Luminous Power of Hand, Cosmos, and Thought / From the mini-cinema installation by the artist Thomas Hartmann (2:14’)

Films by Sarah Morris and Alexander Kluge, with Sarah Morris in person and Alexander Kluge on video call
The Mermaid (1:56’)
Mondrian Machine 1 (1:55’)
Cats in Space (5:30’)
Sarah Morris, Alexander Kluge, and Lukas Brasiskis in conversation

Phoenix Cinema: Meeting with Alexander Kluge unfolds in four parts taking place at e-flux Screening Room on June 13, 15, and 18, 2024, and in a six-part online screening on e-flux Film, with new films streaming each week from June 6–July 17, 2024. Read more about the series here. Watch the online screenings here.

For more information, contact program [​at​] e-flux.com.

Accessibility
– Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
– For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
– e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.