Movies: Danièle Huillet
- 2023
The Last Days of Humanity (2023)
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The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits. Characters, situations and places pitch camp in the life of a humanity that is at once the viewer and the thing viewed....
- 1973
Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene (1973)
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This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals with emerging fascism and the persecution of Jews, as well as with their historical continuities....
- 1971
Othon (1971)
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Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrigue chronicled in Tacitus’s Histories. The costuming is classical, and the toga-clad, nonprofessional c...
- 1968
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)
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The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna....
- 1983
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika (1983)
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This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy....
- 1965
Not Reconciled (1965)
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A story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge. In a brave cinematic game, Heinrich Böll’s story Billiards at Half-Past Nine is split up into cracks, bloc...
- 1993
The Persistence of Vision (1993)
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Blank's TV documentary on Straub-Huillet....
- 2008
Itinerary of Jean Bricard (2008)
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The film is a commemoration of the lost livelihood of the earth, the lost lives of the War and to the work of two of the cinema’s greatest artists....
- 2003
The Return of the Prodigal Son (2003)
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In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They intend to restore the city from the rubble and re-start life, in imitation of the women of Messina who ...
- 1978
Cinématon (1978)
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Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each...
- 1991
Schaut euch diesen Berg an – einstmals war er Feuer (1991)
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- 1968
Jane erschießt John, weil er sie mit Ann betrügt (1968)
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John cheats on Jane with Ann. He claims Jane doesn't care about love, and is wrong: in the end Jane shoots John....
- 1982
Too Early / Too Late (1982)
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Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime, Straub-Huillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980. They reflect on Egypt’s history of peasant stru...
- 1967
Signalement van Jean Marie Straub (1967)
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A short TV documentary about the making of Straub-Huillet's 'Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach'...
- 1992
Antigone (1992)
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A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian tyrant Creon by burying him....
- 1989
Black Sin (1989)
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A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich Hölderlin’s play ‘Der Tod Des Empedokles’....
- 1999
Sicily! (1999)
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A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized conversations with an orange picker, his fellow train passengers, his mother, and a knife-sharpener....
- 2018
Une Vie Risquée (2018)
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Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub’s 85th birthday....
- 2001
Workers, Peasants (2001)
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A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of...
- 1968
The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp (1968)
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Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Str...