Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (FilmmuseumSynemaPublications)

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet have distinguished themselves as two of Europe's most inventive, generous and uncompromising filmmakers. In classics such as Not Reconciled, Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Moses and Aaron, Class Relations, Antigone, and Sicilia!, they developed unique approaches to film adaptation, performance, sound recording, cinematography, and translation, working throughout Germany, Italy and France since the early 1960s.This book is the first English-language "primer" on Straub and Huillet and has been published on the occasion of an extensive touring retrospective of their work in North America and Europe. It features original essays by Claudia Pummer, John Gianvito, Harun Farocki, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Ted Fendt, and Barbara Ulrich, as well as François Albera's career-spanning interview with the two filmmakers. Tracing the history of their films, their aesthetics, and their working methods, the book places special emphasis on the presence of Straub and Huillet in the English-language world and includes a rich array of previously unpublished documents and illustrations.The book was published with the support of the Goethe Institut, Munich. From their first film in 1963, Jean-Marie Straub and Dani?le Huillet distinguished themselves as two of Europe's most inventive, generous, and uncompromising filmmakers. From "Machorka-Muff" (1963) through "These Encounters of Theirs" (2006), and in the subsequent solo work of Jean-Marie Straub, they developed groundbreaking and unique approaches to film adaptation, performance, sound recording, cinematography, and translation in films made across Germany, Italy, and France - including such modern classics as "The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach" (1967), "Moses and Aaron" (1974), "Class Relations" (1983), and "Sicilia!" (1999). On the occasion of the first complete North American retrospective of their films in more than two decades, this volume traces the history of Straub's and Huillet's work, placing their films in the specific cultural, linguistic, and critical contexts in which they were produced and providing an account of their distribution and reception in the English-speaking world From their first film in 1963, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet distinguished themselves as two of Europe's most inventive, generous, and uncompromising filmmakers. From Machorka-Muff (1963) through These Encounters of Theirs (2006), and in the subsequent solo work of Jean-Marie Straub, they developed groundbreaking and unique approaches to film adaptation, performance, sound recording, cinematography, and translation in films made across Germany, Italy, and France - including such modern classics as The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1967), Moses and Aaron (1974), Class Relations (1983), and Sicilia! (1999). On the occasion of the first complete North American retrospective of their films in more than two decades, this volume traces the history of Straub's and Huillet's work, placing their films in the specific cultural, linguistic, and critical contexts in which they were produced and providing an account of their distribution and reception in the English-speaking world. TED FENDT Foreword CLAUDIA PUMMER (Not Only) for Children and Cavemen The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet On Set: Moses and Aaron & From Today Until Tomorrow DANIÉLE HUILLET AND JEAN-MARIE STRAUB IN CONVERSATION WITH FRANÇOIS ALBERA Sickle and Hammer, Cannons, Cannons, Dynamite! AT WORK WITH STRAUB AND HUILLET Thoughts and reflections from their collaborators JOHN GIANVITO Tough Love Reflections on Some Ideas and Practices of Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub HARUN FAROCKI Stop Coughing! JEAN-PIERRE GORIN Nine Notes on Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? Documents from the Archives of New Yorker Films TED FENDT Dividing Lines The Distribution and Reception of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's Films in the English-Speaking World BARBARA ULRICH Straubian Reproductions Organizing and preparing the North American Tour FILMOGRAPHY (1962-2015) ENGLISH-LANGUAGE BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS