"The old film is dead, we believe in the new one" - that is the concluding sentence of the Oberhausener Manifesto. Alexander Kluge was one of the authors of this legendary avowal from 1962 which ...

We are not separated from yesterday by an abyss but rather by the changed situation. Alexander Kluge’s film Yesterday Girl (1966) begins with this sentence. The concept of the “past” already carries a ...