ALEXANDER KLUGE : TEXT & IMAGES at ENSP

ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE ARLES

COLLOQUE ARTS & LANGAGES

by Fabien Vallos & students from FIG Laboratory

À LUMA ARLES – LES FORGES – PARC DES ATELIERS

February 7 2018

In many of the films by the filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge, a series of intertitles in colorful, expressive typography interrupt or link sequences of filmed interviews or inserts of archive footage. Although they are not systematic, they are one of the hallmarks of Kluge style and, like the other images, play a part in the making of the montage, conceived as « a form of diversity and polyphony of images, meanings, pauses between meanings… ». Kluge, now 86, has produced a colossal body of work, made up of medium-length and feature-length films, television programs conceived as « anti-television » and literary monuments that could be described as « anti-literature ». His practice operates by methods of transposition and adaptation of the different fields he occupies literature, cinema and television, which also function in isolation.