Jean-Marie Straub (born 8 January 1933, Metz, France) and Danièle Huillet (1 May 1936, Paris – 9 October 2006, Cholet) were a duo of filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style. Though both were French, they worked mostly in Germany and Italy.
Biography
Straub met Huillet as a student in 1954. Straub was involved in the Parisian cinephile community of the time, and was a friend of François Truffaut. In 1956, Straub worked as an assistant to the film director Jacques Rivette. Straub and Huillet made their first film together, an 18-minute short called Machorka-Muff in 1963; it was based on a story by Heinrich Böll. Their next film, the 55-minute Not Reconciled, was also a Böll adaptation.
They did not make a full-length feature until 1968's Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, after which they made films at a fairly even rate, completing a feature every 2–3 years. In 1968, they also made a short film starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his theatre troupe called The Bridegroom, the Actress and the Pimp. During their career, they adapted two Arnold Schoenberg operas, as well as Franz Kafka's first novel, Amerika.
Video Essay: "Axes! Axes!" | Violence in Films by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
Read more about this video essay by Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas on MUBI's Notebook: https://mubi.io/36g1NJd
An exploration of how violence is uniquely confronted in films by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet: By abandoning the screen.
There is a story of violence hiding behind every player that leaves the frame. The stories around Antigone, Othon, and Empedokles are part of the same History of Violence as those around Karl Rossmann, Machorka-Muff, and Valino.
Here, violence is confronted by leaving; quitting the frame, which does not mean giving up. Whether by anger, boredom, or disappointment, the players confidently depart. Like partisans they actively set out, taking up exile from the frame, leaving it devoid of their presence.
From the complete filmography by Danièle Huillet and...
published: 25 May 2020
Où en êtes-vous, Jean-Marie Straub ? | Cinéma | Centre Pompidou
"Où en êtes-vous, Jean-Marie Straub ?" de Jean-Marie Straub
Suisse - France, mai 2016, 10', coul.
production : Centre Pompidou, ARTE France Cinéma, Belva Films
De Jean-Marie Straub viennent tant d’images et de mots, construits, offerts, hurlés parfois, depuis plus de cinquante ans, que nous croyons le connaître. Dans ce dernier film tourné dans sa maison de Rolle, en Suisse, il nous donne, avec sa capacité à surprendre, de simples nouvelles de lui.
published: 29 Apr 2020
Une visite au Louvre (2004) - Danièle Huillet, Jean Marie Straub
published: 19 Mar 2021
La voix de Jean-Marie Straub
Ecouter la voix de Jean-Marie Straub, regarder une photographie de son film Operai e contadini, monter et descendre dans un ascenseur du centre Pompidou, entendre le temps qui coule sur l'image et le silence entre le mots, le noir entre le plateaux, la recherche entre ce qui reste et ce qui n'existe pas encore.
Cinéma du réel 2010
Read more about this video essay by Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas on MUBI's Notebook: https://mubi.io/36g1NJd
An exploration of how violence is uniquely confronte...
Read more about this video essay by Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas on MUBI's Notebook: https://mubi.io/36g1NJd
An exploration of how violence is uniquely confronted in films by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet: By abandoning the screen.
There is a story of violence hiding behind every player that leaves the frame. The stories around Antigone, Othon, and Empedokles are part of the same History of Violence as those around Karl Rossmann, Machorka-Muff, and Valino.
Here, violence is confronted by leaving; quitting the frame, which does not mean giving up. Whether by anger, boredom, or disappointment, the players confidently depart. Like partisans they actively set out, taking up exile from the frame, leaving it devoid of their presence.
From the complete filmography by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, this essay includes all of the static shots filmed in natural exteriors or ruins in which one or more players abandon the frame after having visibly and completely declaimed their lines towards offscreen interlocutors, leaving the screen deprived from human presence and voice until the end of the shot.
Machorka-Muff (1963)
Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times, or, Perhaps One Day Rome Will Allow Herself to Choose in Her Turn (1970)
From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979)
Class Relations (1984)
The Death of Empedocles (1987)
Antigone (1992)
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Read more about this video essay by Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas on MUBI's Notebook: https://mubi.io/36g1NJd
An exploration of how violence is uniquely confronted in films by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet: By abandoning the screen.
There is a story of violence hiding behind every player that leaves the frame. The stories around Antigone, Othon, and Empedokles are part of the same History of Violence as those around Karl Rossmann, Machorka-Muff, and Valino.
Here, violence is confronted by leaving; quitting the frame, which does not mean giving up. Whether by anger, boredom, or disappointment, the players confidently depart. Like partisans they actively set out, taking up exile from the frame, leaving it devoid of their presence.
From the complete filmography by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, this essay includes all of the static shots filmed in natural exteriors or ruins in which one or more players abandon the frame after having visibly and completely declaimed their lines towards offscreen interlocutors, leaving the screen deprived from human presence and voice until the end of the shot.
Machorka-Muff (1963)
Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times, or, Perhaps One Day Rome Will Allow Herself to Choose in Her Turn (1970)
From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979)
Class Relations (1984)
The Death of Empedocles (1987)
Antigone (1992)
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"Où en êtes-vous, Jean-Marie Straub ?" de Jean-Marie Straub
Suisse - France, mai 2016, 10', coul.
production : Centre Pompidou, ARTE France Cinéma, Belva Films
...
"Où en êtes-vous, Jean-Marie Straub ?" de Jean-Marie Straub
Suisse - France, mai 2016, 10', coul.
production : Centre Pompidou, ARTE France Cinéma, Belva Films
De Jean-Marie Straub viennent tant d’images et de mots, construits, offerts, hurlés parfois, depuis plus de cinquante ans, que nous croyons le connaître. Dans ce dernier film tourné dans sa maison de Rolle, en Suisse, il nous donne, avec sa capacité à surprendre, de simples nouvelles de lui.
"Où en êtes-vous, Jean-Marie Straub ?" de Jean-Marie Straub
Suisse - France, mai 2016, 10', coul.
production : Centre Pompidou, ARTE France Cinéma, Belva Films
De Jean-Marie Straub viennent tant d’images et de mots, construits, offerts, hurlés parfois, depuis plus de cinquante ans, que nous croyons le connaître. Dans ce dernier film tourné dans sa maison de Rolle, en Suisse, il nous donne, avec sa capacité à surprendre, de simples nouvelles de lui.
Ecouter la voix de Jean-Marie Straub, regarder une photographie de son film Operai e contadini, monter et descendre dans un ascenseur du centre Pompidou, entend...
Ecouter la voix de Jean-Marie Straub, regarder une photographie de son film Operai e contadini, monter et descendre dans un ascenseur du centre Pompidou, entendre le temps qui coule sur l'image et le silence entre le mots, le noir entre le plateaux, la recherche entre ce qui reste et ce qui n'existe pas encore.
Cinéma du réel 2010
Ecouter la voix de Jean-Marie Straub, regarder une photographie de son film Operai e contadini, monter et descendre dans un ascenseur du centre Pompidou, entendre le temps qui coule sur l'image et le silence entre le mots, le noir entre le plateaux, la recherche entre ce qui reste et ce qui n'existe pas encore.
Cinéma du réel 2010
Read more about this video essay by Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas on MUBI's Notebook: https://mubi.io/36g1NJd
An exploration of how violence is uniquely confronted in films by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet: By abandoning the screen.
There is a story of violence hiding behind every player that leaves the frame. The stories around Antigone, Othon, and Empedokles are part of the same History of Violence as those around Karl Rossmann, Machorka-Muff, and Valino.
Here, violence is confronted by leaving; quitting the frame, which does not mean giving up. Whether by anger, boredom, or disappointment, the players confidently depart. Like partisans they actively set out, taking up exile from the frame, leaving it devoid of their presence.
From the complete filmography by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, this essay includes all of the static shots filmed in natural exteriors or ruins in which one or more players abandon the frame after having visibly and completely declaimed their lines towards offscreen interlocutors, leaving the screen deprived from human presence and voice until the end of the shot.
Machorka-Muff (1963)
Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times, or, Perhaps One Day Rome Will Allow Herself to Choose in Her Turn (1970)
From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979)
Class Relations (1984)
The Death of Empedocles (1987)
Antigone (1992)
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"Où en êtes-vous, Jean-Marie Straub ?" de Jean-Marie Straub
Suisse - France, mai 2016, 10', coul.
production : Centre Pompidou, ARTE France Cinéma, Belva Films
De Jean-Marie Straub viennent tant d’images et de mots, construits, offerts, hurlés parfois, depuis plus de cinquante ans, que nous croyons le connaître. Dans ce dernier film tourné dans sa maison de Rolle, en Suisse, il nous donne, avec sa capacité à surprendre, de simples nouvelles de lui.
Ecouter la voix de Jean-Marie Straub, regarder une photographie de son film Operai e contadini, monter et descendre dans un ascenseur du centre Pompidou, entendre le temps qui coule sur l'image et le silence entre le mots, le noir entre le plateaux, la recherche entre ce qui reste et ce qui n'existe pas encore.
Cinéma du réel 2010
Jean-Marie Straub (born 8 January 1933, Metz, France) and Danièle Huillet (1 May 1936, Paris – 9 October 2006, Cholet) were a duo of filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style. Though both were French, they worked mostly in Germany and Italy.
Biography
Straub met Huillet as a student in 1954. Straub was involved in the Parisian cinephile community of the time, and was a friend of François Truffaut. In 1956, Straub worked as an assistant to the film director Jacques Rivette. Straub and Huillet made their first film together, an 18-minute short called Machorka-Muff in 1963; it was based on a story by Heinrich Böll. Their next film, the 55-minute Not Reconciled, was also a Böll adaptation.
They did not make a full-length feature until 1968's Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, after which they made films at a fairly even rate, completing a feature every 2–3 years. In 1968, they also made a short film starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his theatre troupe called The Bridegroom, the Actress and the Pimp. During their career, they adapted two Arnold Schoenberg operas, as well as Franz Kafka's first novel, Amerika.
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