Songs of the Earth

Part 1 · Apr 11, 1985

Grace, Things (Song of the Earth Part 5)

The fifth of five parts of Klaus Wyborny's "Lieder der Erde" / "Song of the Earth" cycle of films, whose theme is "the emergence of modern European civilization." The series comprises five large parts, which are in turn divided into various selections or short films.

Part 2 · Jul 11, 1985

At the Edge of Darkness (Song of the Earth Part 1)

This is the first of five parts of Klaus Wyborny's "Lieder der Erde" / "Song of the Earth" cycle of films, whose theme is "the emergence of modern European civilization."

Part 3 · Jan 1, 1992

Abandoned; Lost; Lonely, Cold (Song of the Earth Part 3)

Third part of a cycle of five films titled SONGS OF THE EARTH, whose theme is the emergence of European civilization.

Part 4 · Jan 1, 1994

From the Age of Recklessness (Song of the Earth Part 4)

The fourth of five parts of Klaus Wyborny's "Lieder der Erde" / "Song of the Earth" cycle of films, whose theme is "the emergence of modern European civilization." The series comprises five large parts, which are in turn divided into various selections or short films.

Part 5 · Jan 1, 2004

Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2)

The second of five parts of Klaus Wyborny's "Lieder der Erde" / "Song of the Earth" cycle of films, whose theme is "the emergence of modern European civilization." The series comprises five large parts, which are in turn divided into various selections or short films.

Part 6 · Oct 1, 2010

Studies for the Decay of the West

Wyborny’s latest flicker film concentrates on factories, industrial wastelands, waterways, cityscapes, and the bits in between, and has an uncanny emotional resonance. It is “serene, in the manner of ants”—to quote the title of the second section—but it is also elegiac and melancholy. Like two other old cranks (Godard and Straub), the director stays true to ideas about filmic composition gestated over many years and thereby provides a glimpse of a utopian cinema.