A mammoth goes home in 2 minutes of pure philosophical chaos.
Adorno is not just a theorist and philosopher, he was also a composer and student of Alban Berg in Vienna. The text of the short song goes: “What’s driving there, on a cart and stretches out his long trunk?/ It is a mammoth! It is a mammoth! It is a mammoth which wants to go home.”
Direction
Kluge compresses an entire thesis into a nursery rhyme.
Writing
Adorno's lyrics slap harder than his philosophy.
Director
Alexander Kluge
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adorno composed this in 1941 while in exile from Nazi Germany, making the mammoth's homecoming achingly literal.
Kluge, now in his 90s, has been making shorts like this for decades—this is his TikTok, basically.
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