News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital

*6.8

Status

Released

Production

Suhrkamp Verlag

Aired

2008-11-30

News from Ideological Antiquity - Marx/Eisenstein/The Capital

Alexander Kluge’s News from Ideological Antiquity begins with Soviet 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.