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Reading Capital, Repeated / Enigma, Repeated: Kluge and Trust

Saturday May 14th 2011 - 2PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014

In Grapes of Trust, Kluge deals with the collateral damage of the
still-ongoing economic crisis. It's about the antithesis of the crisis
— the confidence, what can money not buy? Why and how is the
capitalist confidence a raw material more necessary to them than
concrete or oil? Grapes of Trust is divided into four parts: I. The
restlessness of the money, II. Rescue can not buy you money, III. A
cigarette burns in thin air, IV. What can we trust?

Eighty years after Sergei Eisenstein plans a lm of ’Das Kapital’,
Alexander Kluge brings new life into the project. The starting point
was Eisenstein’s intention to turn Marx’s seminal work into a movie
and add a montage inspired by James Joyce (who Eisenstein met in
1929). Eisenstein was convinced that the project would be more likely
to lead to a radical change in orientation of the possibilities of
cinema than to a mere screen version of Marx’s ’Das Kapital’. Through
strategies radically di erent from those usually employed in cinematic
narrative, Kluge continues to use what he calls Eisenstein’s
’modernity’ in the year 2008 in his ’Nachrichten aus der ideologischen
Antike. Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital’. Interviews, music
recordings, an incredibly diverse range of visual and audio fragments,
thoughts about Hölderin and Schiller, and self-staged sequences are
all brought together. Intermediate diverse typography at times help
through the disparate image and sound strategies which perpetually
encourage us to imagine, or rather what Kluge calls ’Phantasie’.

2PM - Welcome.

2:30PM
--Grapes of Trust - Alexander Kluge, 2009, 120 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 120 minutes | Digital Projection

4:30 - Meal break.

5PM
--News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx-Eisenstein-Capital - Alexander
Kluge (with Tom Tykwer), 2008, 84 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 84 minutes | Digital Projection

6:30PM - Discussion.

Suggested Reading:
--Notes for a Film of Capital - Sergei Eisenstein, October,
1927-1928/1977, 24 pages (as a .pdf): http://www.mediafire.com/?h1wdsp3zzend42q
--Reading Eisenstein Reading Capital, Part 1 - Annette Michelson,
October, 1977, 12 pages (as a .pdf): http://www.mediafire.com/?z4v45tizfc88xau
--Reading Eisenstein Reading Capital, Part 2 - Annette Michelson,
October, 1977, 8 pages (as a .pdf): http://www.mediafire.com/?hkr0uieh9g99w0l
--Marx: The Quest, the Path, the Destination - Helmut Merker,
Tagesspiegel, 2009: http://www.signandsight.com/service/1815.html
--Marx and Montage - Fredric Jameson, New Left Review, 2009:
http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2793
--Good News: On Kluge's Ideological Antiquity - Bo¹ko Blagojeviæ,
Marty Kirchner, Chris Reitz, Stephen Squibb, Idiom, 2010:
http://idiommag.com/2010/11/good-news-on-kluges-ideological-antiquity/

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