Not Reconciled: The Cinema of Straub & Huillet
January 26–May 14, 2017
The duo of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet created one of the most uncompromising, yet eternally surprising, filmmaking aesthetics in postwar European cinema. Discover the films that inspired Harun Farocki, Pedro Costa, John Gianvito, and others.
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Antigone
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Not Reconciled, or Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules
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Past Films
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Italy/West Germany, 1967Thursday, January 26 7 PMView DetailsLoosely based on correspondence between Johann Sebastian Bach and his second wife, Chronicle is not a film about music, it is a film of music. With short.
Not Reconciled, Or Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules
West Germany, 1965Sunday, January 29 1:30 PMIntroduced by Erik UlmanView DetailsStraub-Huillet take dynamite to the fabric of postwar Germany in this powerful adaptation of a Heinrich Böll story about a German family before, during, and after the Nazi era. With shorts.
Too Early / Too Late
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
France, 1982Sunday, February 5 2 PMView DetailsScenes from the French countryside and urban Egypt bookend this “politicized landscape” film, based on letters by Friedrich Engels and two militant Egyptian Marxists.
From the Cloud to the Resistance
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Italy / West Germany, 1979Sunday, February 12 2 PMView DetailsStraub-Huillet showcase two key texts by the great Italian poet/novelist Cesare Pavese, one on the mythological gods above, the other on a real-life anti-fascist massacre. With short En rachâchant.
Class Relations
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
West Germany, 1984Thursday, February 16 7 PMView DetailsA young immigrant finds America as confusing (and class-ridden) as the old world in Straub-Huillet’s claustrophobic adaptation of a Kafka story. With Harun Farocki’s Jean Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika.
Antigone
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
France, Germany, 1991Sunday, February 19 2 PMView DetailsStraub-Huillet bring multiple layers of history to life in their dramatic vision of Bertolt Brecht’s version of the poet Hölderlin’s adaptation of Sophocles’s Antigone, here restaged in Sicily’s ancient and atmospheric Teatro di Segesta.
Moses and Aaron
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
West Germany, France, Italy, 1974Sunday, February 26 1:30 PMIntroduced by Erik UlmanView Details“The best opera film ever made” (P. Adams Sitney), Moses and Aaron presents Schoenberg’s great opera in the Roman Alba Fucense amphitheater. “A film in which every cut, every camera movement counts for so much” (New Yorker Films). With short.
Sicilia!
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Italy, France, 1999Sunday, March 5 2 PMView DetailsSentences become arias as one man’s return to Sicily inspires recollections of corruption, treachery, and political and personal woe in this “masterpiece” (Artforum). With companion piece Return of the Prodigal Son / Humiliated.
The Death of Empedocles, or When the Green of the Earth Will Glisten for You Anew
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
France, West Germany, 1986Sunday, March 12 2 PMView DetailsGreek philosopher Empedocles finds himself both a hero of the people and an enemy of the state in this staging of a Hölderlin play on spectacular Mount Etna. Its style “reveals a utopian present” (Artforum).
Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times, or Perhaps One Day Rome Will Permit Herself to Choose in Her Turn
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
West Germany, Italy, 1969Sunday, March 19 1:30 PMIntroduced by Erik UlmanView DetailsContemporary Rome is never far away in Straub-Huillet’s self-aware adaptation of a Corneille play about the Roman Empire. With short Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice.
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
Pedro Costa
France, Portugal, 2001Wednesday, March 22 7 PMView DetailsPedro Costa witnesses Straub and Huillet at work in the editing room in this “revelatory study of the moviemaking process” (The New Yorker).
History Lessons
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Italy, West Germany, 1972Sunday, March 26 2 PMView DetailsThis notorious adaptation of Brecht’s The Business Affairs of Mr. Julius Caesar envisions the leader through his business underlings, and the Roman Empire through contemporary Roman traffic. With short Concerning Venice.
Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
France, West Germany, 1989Sunday, April 2 2 PMView DetailsStraub and Huillet pay tribute to one of their artistic heroes. With the companion film A Visit to the Louvre, featuring Cezanne's uncompromising examination of paintings by Ingres, Delacroix, Courbet, Tintoretto, and others.
Workers, Peasants
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Italy, France, 2000Thursday, April 20 7 PMView DetailsA roster of nonprofessional actors from Pisa bring to life a famed Marxist novella, Women of Messina, in Straub-Huillet’s stunning treatise on community and opposition. With short Incantati.
Fortini/Cani
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Italy, 1976Sunday, April 23 2 PMView DetailsStraub-Huillet’s aesthetic of spoken word plus projected image, history plus landscape, was boiled to its essence in this cine-essay featuring legendary Italian New Left figure Franco Fortini. With Lothringen!, based on novels byMaurice Barrès.
Black Sin
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
West Germany, 1988Sunday, April 30 2 PMView DetailsHistory doubles back on itself like a noose in Straub-Huillet’s second version of The Death of Empedocles, as the Greek philosopher advocates for democracy for his people, with tragic results. With Itinerary of Jean Bricard.
These Encounters of Theirs
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
France, Italy, 2005Thursday, May 4 7 PMView DetailsThe musings of the gods are brought to the earthly realms of contemporary rural Italy in Straub and Huillet’s re-creation of Cesare Pavese’s 1947 book Dialogues with Leucò. With Proposition in Four Parts.
Communists
Jean-Marie Straub
France, Switzerland, 2014Sunday, May 7 2 PMView DetailsThis digital meditation on struggle and resistance “is the closest Straub has come to an autobiographical film” (Artforum). With shorts The Algerian War! and The Aquarium and the Nation.
From Today Until Tomorrow
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Germany, France, 1996Sunday, May 14 4 PMView DetailsAn opera film with all attention on the performances and the music, and a thing of beauty. A husband and wife return from a party and begin to speak and sing of romantic rivals and possibilities. With shorts The Inconsolable One and Dialogue with Shadows.