Communist Utopians: The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

Introduction: Communist Utopians: The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

October 2019

Communist Utopians: The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

The filmmaking couple Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet were fond of describing their film Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1986) ...

Straub-Huillet, Brecht and the Two Avant-Gardes

Martin Brady

October 2019

Communist Utopians: The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

I am unaware of any influence, political or artistic, that I could have exercised on the film industry. Bertolt Brecht, 1947 It’s cinema that inve...

Straub/Huillet’s Ecological Communism

Daniel Fairfax

October 2019

Communist Utopians: The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

In the years following Danièle Huillet’s death, Jean-Marie Straub was something of a fixture in the Parisian repertory cinema scene. As retrospective ...

Moses and Aaron: On the Aesthetics of Equal Distribution

Ute Holl

October 2019

Communist Utopians: The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

1. Before the Law Exile, alterity, violence and the reasons of law are key issues dealt with in Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s film Moses un...

Mourning-work: Straub’s Solo Films (2007-2018)

Claudia Pummer

October 2019

Communist Utopians: The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

Straub’s “Archaeomodern” Turn “Dead, Danièle Huillet kills us twice, because her dying is as much Straub dying, who will likely never film again,” wr...

Stalking the Invisible: On Cinematic Winds in the films of Joris Ivens and Jean-Marie Straub/Danièlle Huillet

Dalia Neis

October 2019

Communist Utopians: The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

We are mad to be filming the wind. It’s like filming the impossible. We are mad to be filming the wind; filming the impossible is what’s best in life....

A War Film: Antigone by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub

Benoît Turquety

October 2019

Communist Utopians: The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

What we usually call “film adaptation” is an exemplary form of reconfiguration. On the basis of an original work foreign to the medium – a novel, a pl...

The Dialectic of Cinema, Theatre and Life: Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub

Thomas Voltzenlogel

October 2019

Communist Utopians: The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

In Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1986), Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub present, by means of Hölderlin’s verse, what constitu...

Goodbye to Danièle

Fabrice Ziolkowski

October 2019

Communist Utopians: The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

I first met Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub sometime in 1975 when they came to show some of their films at UC Santa Barbara where I was an under...