News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – The Capital
Alexander Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity begins with Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s ambitious but unrealized plan to combine Karl Marx’s Capital and James Joyce’s Ulysses. For over nine hours, the film expands in concentric circles as Kluge, his guests, interlocutors and monologists make associative links on a range of topics that starts from a filmic discussion of Eisenstein’s notes.
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News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – The Capital
Alexander Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity begins with Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s ambitious but unrealized plan to combine Karl Marx’s Capital and James Joyce’s Ulysses. For over nine hours, the film expands in concentric circles as Kluge, his guests, interlocutors and monologists make associative links on a range of topics that starts from a filmic discussion of Eisenstein’s notes.
Orignal Title
Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike: Marx/Eisenstein/Das Kapital
Orignal Language
de
Duration
570 minutes
Genre
Documentary
Status
Released
Release Data
2008-11-30
Production Companies
Suhrkamp Verlag
