The filmmaking couple Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet were fond of describing their film Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1986) ...
In the years following Danièle Huillet’s death, Jean-Marie Straub was something of a fixture in the Parisian repertory cinema scene. As retrospective ...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
