The Indomitable Leni Peickert

The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose halfhour sequel to Alexander Kluges second feature film Artists in the Big Top Perplexed This shorter work seemingly assembled from leftover footage from the longer film continues the story of the circus owner Leni Peickert after she first abandoned her idea of a radical circus in favor of a job in television It opens where the previous film left off at a TV station where Leni and her friends have gathered as employees attempting to infiltrate the corporate establishment with their own revolutionary ideas This radicalism is somewhat undercut by the way that Kluge deliberately shoots down the lowcut blouse of one of these young revolutionaries the camera eyeing her cleavage and then panning down to the text shes reading and then back up again finding her sexuality ultimately much more interesting than her radicalism