Der Eiffelturm, King Kong und die weiße Frau & Mann ohne Kopf

The Eiffel Tower, King Kong, and the White Woman: A typical magazine from the start-up period of the independent television window in private broadcast TV. All traditional possibilities for expression in film and many types of television are experimented with: Editing, collage, multiple exposure, narrative interlacing. It deals with the opera, the French Revolution, the Eiffel tower, hit songs from 1932, and Walter Benjamin. Headless Man: Ballads and murder ballads are elemental narrative styles that are the precursor to the cinema. They relate destinies and emotion. A tiger saves a young maiden from a Turkish man; a stepmother kills the child she was entrusted with. But how do you tell about the construction work at dusk in the ruins of the Twin Towers or about Amok? Additional texts from his work at television in the booklet and as ROM features.

DVD features (2-disc DVD)

DVD 1

• Die Afrikanerin oder Liebe mit tödlichem Ausgang 1988, 24'
• Die Guillotine oder die Kategorie der Plötzlichkeit 1988, 24'
• Der Eiffelturm, King Kong und die weiße Frau 1988, 24'
• Antiquitäten der Reklame 1988, 24'
• Das Fliegerlied 1988, 22'
• Wilde Nacht mit Mond 1990, 16'
• 12 page booklet with texts by Alexander Kluge

DVD 2

• Mann ohne Kopf 2007, 2'
• Woher stammt das Lied "Die Fahne hoch"? 1994, 9'
• Die Zeit, die vergehen muß, damit eine Zuschauermenge Initiative ergreift 2007, 4'
• Bleib steh'n, Wanderer, und lies 1996, 15'
• Nur Gott hat zugesehen 2002, 12'
• N.Y. Ground Zero 2002, 2'
• Raubengel 2007, 1'
• Der Untergang der Titanic 2003, 15'
• Solange die Notenblätter reichen 2007, 2'
• Die Rache der betrogenen Braut 1994, 13'
• Die neun Unzertrennlichen 1994, 3'
• Amok. Das Ende der Einfühlung 2002, 45'
• Book edited by Christian Schulte and Reinald Gußmann "Alexander Kluge: Der Eiffelturm, King Kong und die weiße Frau" (Verlag Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2002) as ROM feature

DVD edited by: Filmmuseum München and Goethe-Institut, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation
DVD authoring: Ralph Schermbach
DVD supervision: Stefan Droessler

First edition August 2008, Second edition November 2008