‘Meet the Director: Alexander Kluge - Screening Orphea’

30 Sept.'21
- 20:00

With an online conversation with the director

An evening centred on the legendary German author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge. Kluge was originally employed as a lawyer, working with Theodor Adorno. He is one of the founders of the ‘Neuer Deutscher Film’, a movement that did not shirk confrontation with Germany’s past. His work pokes fun at both the current balance of power and great historical figures. With a highly diverse palette of visual material - documentary and fictional, historical and current - non-linear narratives and scenes that sometimes stop abruptly, Kluge aims to inspire active rather than passive viewers.

Alexander Kluge, now 89 years old, will enter into a digital conversation from Germany with the Bozar audience. This conversation will be moderated by Niels Van Tomme (Argos) and is about his work. The talk will be followed by a screening of Orphea, Kluge’s most recent film and a collaboration with the Filipino filmmaker Khavn. Orphea is a 21st-century interpretation of the famous Greek Orpheus myth, with both the protagonist and his lover Eurydice being assigned a different gender in the film. Nothing in this Orphea is secure, everything here is rhythm. The film has left ancient tragedy with its fixed plot behind and substitutes it with faith in the force of the imagination, the power of music and the capacity for love that underlies all cinema. 

The film will be available on the Goethe platform here after the screening in Bozar.

Practical information

Location

Studio

Rue Ravenstein 23 1000 BRUSSELS

Language

  • German
  • Subtitles: English

20:00 Meet the director: Alexander Kluge
21:00 Screening: Orphea

 

The pluriverse of the eminent German director Alexander Kluge keeps expanding. A selection of his Minutenfilme will be on view at ARGOS from 17 September 2021 to 31 July 2022. 

Rates

Standard

8 -

-26

6 -

Co-presentation

  • argos centre for audiovisual arts