Alexander Kluge is a famous director in the movement of the New German Cinema, a legendary figure who is simultaneously a screenwriter, producer, narrator, actor, movie theorist, reviewer, novelist, scholar, movie and TV entrepreneur and critic. Since the 1960’s, he has engaged actively in filmdom, literature, academia, and various significant social movements in Germany. He has made great contributions to art, culture policy and the business operation of the movie and television industry of Germany.

In the beginning of March 2012, Alexander Kluge’s movie News from the ideological antiquity. Marx - Eisenstein – Das Kapital, was shown in China for the first time. The premiere in Beijing prompted a sustainable discussion in different areas of art. In this context, the Goethe-Institut, China will offer an opportunity to examine Alexander Kluge’s work thoroughly.

Within the framework of the Alexander Kluge retrospective in Beijing, Nanjing and Shanghai, taking place from May until June, a broad spectrum of 24 film and TV works from 1961-2009 will be presented, among others, Yesterday Girl (1966), Part-time Work of a Domestic Slave (1973), The Power of Emotions (1983) and The Eiffel Tower, King Kong, and the White Woman (1988). In the latter case, all classical means of expression are involved: montage, collage, multiple exposure, narrative interconnection. It is about an opera, the French Revolution, the Eiffel Tower, the hits of 1932 and Walter Benjamin.

June 15, 7pm
In Danger and In Deep Distress, the Middleway Spells Certain Death
June 16, 4:30pm
Strongman Ferdinand
June 16, 7pm
Germany in Autumn
June 17, 7pm
The Patriot
June 20, 7pm
The Power of Emotions
June 21, 7pm
Shorts I:
Brutalität in Stein, Lehrer im Wandel, Porträt einer Bewährung, Frau Blackburn, geb. 5. Jan. 1872, wird gefilmt, Feuerloscher E.A.Winterstein, Ein Arzt aus Halberstadt, Die Unbezähmbare Leni Peickert
June 22, 2pm
Shorts II:
Besitzbürgerin, Jahrgang 1908, Nachrichten von den Staufern, Auf der Suche nach einer praktisch-realistischen Haltung, Raumfahrt als ein inneres Erlebnis, Blinde Liebe: Gespräch mit Jean-Luc Godard, 16 Minutenfilme
June 22, 7pm
The Eiffel Tower, King Kong, and the White Woman
Serpentine Gallery Program
June 24, 7pm
The Poetic Power of Theory

Organizers: Goethe-Institut (China), Ullens Center For Contemporary Art Cinema