Sally Shafto’s introduction sets the context for the transcript to the Straub’s film that follows.
Sally Shafto
Sally Shafto is an independent film scholar. She is the author of The Zanzibar Films and the Dandies of May 68 (Paris: Paris Expérimental, 2007), available for purchase online at www.eyrolles.com.
Articles by Sally Shafto:
Transcript of the dialogue, and description of visual and sound tracks to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s 2004 film on Cezanne.
The French painter is the subject of two films by the Straubs, Une Visite au Louvre and, more significantly, Cézanne. Sally Shafto looks at the importance of his art and ideas on the Straubs.
Luc Moullet is what the French call “un original”, an offbeat, quirky talent, who over a nearly fifty-year period has forged a unique filmography. Sally Shafto goes in search of what makes Moullet such an individualist.
This past January while in Paris I tried to contact Michel Fournier, Philippe Garrel’s legendary cameraman on six films, from Marie pour Mémoire (1968) to Athanor (1972). I was getting ready to go to Bordeaux where I was to present two Zanzibar films (Garrel’s La Concentration, 1968, and Patrick Deval’s Acéphale, 1968) in conjunction with [...]
As the effects of digital technology become increasing pervasive within contemporary culture, Sally Shafto discusses what uses it is put in a range of auteur films such as Jia Zhang Ke’s The World, Eric Rohmer’s The Lady and the Duke and Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten.








