Movies

Documentary about the shooting of Straub's Antigone.

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

In his meetings with various different people, Jean-Luc Godard develops his thinking about history, politics, the cinema, images and time, and this...

My films are like that: in a room, but looking out onto an open sky. [...] I can’t really say it except to repeat that Bresson note,...

The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.

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...

Undaunted by a commission to make a film about his mentors and aesthetic exemplars, the filmmaking team of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle...

Based on a rarely performed Schoenberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a marriage. A husband and wife return from a...

Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub's 85th birthday.

Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese’s «Dialoghi con Leucò», taken from classical mythology....

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

In the summer of 1986, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub were working in the park of an old Sicilian mansion and in a clearing at the foot...

A satirical attack on West Germany's re-armament and revival of militaristic tradition in the Adenauer era.

"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...

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

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

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.

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

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a...