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) ...

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...

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...

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...