Name: Spaceflight as an Internal Experience
Director: Alexander Kluge
Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction
Released: 1999-08-08
Duration: 15 min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Peter Berling

15 minutes of cosmic bureaucracy where space travel happens entirely in your feelings.

absurdistmetadryly hilarious

Overview

Comedy Science Fiction

Short science fiction film, a companion piece to Kluge's Der Große Verhau and Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte.

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Standout Aspects

Direction

Kluge's essay-film brain applied to sci-fi tropes.

Writing

Dry absurdist dialogue about cosmic emotional labor.

Best for:Solo·Rewatch

Director

Alexander Kluge

ReleasedAug 8, 1999

Runtime15m

StatusReleased

Vibe

Paceslow

Intensitylow

Tonemixed

Feelmedium

Kairos-Film

Top Cast

Peter Berling

Gen. Lt. Pugatschow

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Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Cultural

Part of Kluge's 1970s West German TV experiments, where subsidized airtime let him make deliberately unwatchable art for mass audiences.

Insight

The title's internal experience refers to Kluge's theory that true spaceflight would be psychological, not technological—a direct jab at 2001's operatic hardware worship.