Eiffel Tower, King Kong, and The White Woman (1988) by Alexander Kluge
Saturday, April 28, 1990, 8:00 pm
TEN TO ELEVEN – MADE FOR TV BY ALEXANDER KLUGE
Program II
The work of Kluge defies simple categorizations. Documentary techniques are used to create fictional characters who then confuse our expectations by interviewing real politicians. When Kluge subverts film and television genres, he’s really subverting the economic, political, and cultural assumptions these styles reflect. In our second program of tapes made for German TV, 20th Century history comes to the fore. Eiffel Tower, King Kong, and The White Woman bring the title’s three elements together along with cartoons, victory in France, and Martin Hiedegger. In Why Are You Crying, Antonio? Chamberlain and Mussolini go to the opera and start a war. Changing Time (Quickly) zips through time and space from 1812-1988, from Metropolis to Red Square. Total running time: 75 minutes.