Country:France

Director:Straub & Huillet

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

This movie is the sequel of Straub and Huillet’s From the Clouds to the Resistance and like its prequel is inspired by a sequence of stories in Cesare Pavese's book Dialogue with Leucò, which takes its basis in classical mythology. Straub/Huillet again meditate on a series of linked segments that force us to contemplate a state of exile and transient confirmations of a peripetetic point of view. This is the final film by Straub/Huillet.

Country:France

Director:Straub & Huillet

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

This precise little masterpiece is challenging in its utter simplicity. The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there are things he doesn't know. The text is by Marguerite Duras which she later used as the basis for her own final film as a director. This is an ideal introduction to the rigours and disarming directness of the Straub/Huillet approach.

Country:France

Director:Straub & Huillet

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

This riddling short work takes its basis in the work of poet Stephane Mallarme whose title phrase is now in common usage. The film confines itself to a simple cinematic gesture that grants us the freedom to contemplate ions of history and the curious tendencies of humankind. This challenging maneuver may be admittedly cerebral in its character but as with all of Straub/Huillet the experience comes right from the gut.

Country:France

Director:Straub & Huillet

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

A challenging film that incorporates Schoenberg’s unique score which had been a work of concert music written with an imaginary film scène in mind, thus Schoenberg considered he was writing film music. Straub & Huillet devoted many works to the consideration of musical works including Schoenberg’s last opera. Here they place the music in rigourous context of a cinema turned to Schoenberg’s dodecophony.

Country:Germany

Director:Straub & Huillet

Program:The Lineage of Parallel Cinema

Summary:

Three sequences are linked together in this disorientingly sublime short film; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Straub and photographed in a single take; the final sequence covers the marriage of James and Lilith, and Lilith's subsequent execution of her pimp, who is played by director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.