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Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political...

A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a...

A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne.

Recently discovered and shown only twice before, Incantati is an alternate ending to Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 2003 film...

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political...

The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

Documentary about the shooting of Straub's Antigone.

The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini's book 'I Cani del Sinai'. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his...

Excerpts from the novel Donna di Messina (1949 and 1964, 1967) by Elio Vittorini (1908-1966).

In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They...

Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocles, the legislator in Ancient Greece.

Forgotten Straub-Huillet film that shows outtakes from "Der Tod des Empedokles".

These Encounters Of Theirs divides 10 non-professional actors into couples, then has them take turns in declaiming the Dialogues With Leuco, Cesare...

About the history of the French region of Lorraine, called Lothringen in German.

The film is a commemoration of the lost livelihood of the earth, the lost lives of the War and to the work of two of the cinema’s greatest...

Reel 35 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals...

Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are...

The original television version of 'Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?'

"At the end of filming Umiliati, Straub and Huillet gave thanks to the cast and crew in a graceful way: by inviting Dolando Bernardini to sing...