“Straub/Huillet Retrospective”
Join COMD for a comprehensive film series honoring filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. Straub-Huillet together formed one of the most intense, challenging, and controversial collaborations in the history of cinema. Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet worked together for over 40 years until Danièle Huillet’s death in October 2006. Since the early 1960s their radical approach towards filmmaking allowed them to create almost 30 very diverse films; they treated and transformed literature by Kafka, Pavese and Hölderlin, as well as the paintings of Cézanne, cantatas by Bach and operas by Schönberg. Huillet and Straub categorically refused to offer any kind of interpretation that might ease or facilitate access to the artwork or so-called original. Instead, their focus on the act of speaking, always in very specific circumstances, opens up a multitude of possible interpretations; this marks precisely the peculiarity of their films.
Nov 27 @ 16:30 in FFB 011
CLASS RELATIONS (1984) JACKALS AND ARABS (2011)
Nov 28 @ 16:30 in FFB 011
NOT RECONCILED (1965) + EVERY REVOLUTION IS A THROW OF DICE (1977)
Dec 10 @ 16:30 in FFB 011
TOO EARLY / TOO LATE (1981) A VISIT TO THE LOUVRE (2004)
Dec 11 @ 16:30 in FFB 011
COMMUNISTS (2014) FRANCE AGAINST ROBOTS (2020)