Dalla nube alla resistenza

- Dalla nube alla resistenza

Italy 1978 (35mm, 105', )

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While Straub and Huillet are in France editing Quei loro incontri. Gli uomini, gli dei (the last 5 Dialogs with Leucò), which was shot once again at Buti (after being represented onstage), we re-present their Pavesi-like film, which was made almost 30 years ago, partly as a “projection” toward the 2006 Festival.

“A landscape must be discovered, not filmed. To film a landscape is like raping it. After having discovered it you must return to look at it again at least ten times before you have the right to film it. And that’s when you discover that there is something in that landscape, it’s no longer an empty landscape to be exploited like a profit-making source. […] Whoever films a landscape, be it a ravine or, more in general, nature, always runs the risk of inflating it, and the sole duty of anyone who considers himself an artist is to not bring grist to his own mill. The mill of the society we live in is inflation… A director must do the opposite. And it was with this in mind that we made our voyage through the Langhe.” ( J.-M. Straub)

Jean-Marie Straub

Jean-Marie Straub was born in Metz, in Lorraine (France), on January 8, 1933. He ran a film club in Metz from 1950 to 1954. He studied in Strasburg and Nancy. He moved to Paris in November 1954, where he met Danièle Huillet. He wrote articles for "Radio-Cinéma-Télévision," and was an assistant to Jacques Rivette for Le Coup du Berger. He left France in June 1959 for Amsterdam, and then moved to Germany. He was condemned in absentia to one year in prison by the Military Court in Metz for having refused to do his military service in Algeria. He was pardoned in 1971. He lived in Munich until 1969, when he moved to Rome.

FILMOGRAPHY
(Updated to the last partecipation to TFF)
Machorka-Muff (r. Jean-Marie Straub, cm, 1962-63), Nicht versöhnt oder Es Hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt Herrscht (Non riconciliati o Solo violenza aiuta dove violenza regna, mm, 1964-65), Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (Cronaca di Anna Magdalena Bach, 1967-68), Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter (r. Jean-Marie Straub, Il fidanzato, l'attrice e il ruffiano, cm, 1968), Les yeux ne veulent pas en tout temps se fermer ou Peut-être qu'un jour Rome se permetta de choisir à son tour/Othon (Gli occhi non vogliono in ogni tempo chiudersi o Forse un giorno Roma si permetterà di scegliere a sua volta/Ottone, 1969), Geschichtsunterricht (Lezioni di storia, 1972), Einleitung zu Arnold Schönbergs «Begleitsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene» (Introduzione alla «Musica d'accompagnamento per una scena di film» di Arnold Schönberg, cm, 1972), Moses und Aron (Mosé e Aronne, 1974-75), Fortini/Cani (1976), Toute révolution est un coup de dés (Ogni rivoluzione è un colpo di dadi, cm, 1977), Dalla nube alla resistenza (1978), Trop tôt, trop tard (Troppo presto, troppo tardi, 1980-81), En rachâchant (cm, 1982), Klassenverhältnisse (Rapporti di classe, 1983), Proposta in quattro parti per «La magnifica ossessione» (mm, 1985), Der Tod des Empedokles oder Wenn dann der Erde Grün von neuem Euch erglänzt (La morte di Empedocle o Quando allora il verde della terra di nuovo risplenderà per voi, 1986), Schwarze Sünde (Peccato nero, mm, 1988), Cézanne (mm, 1990), Antigone (1991-92), Lothringen! (cm, 1994), Von Heute auf Morgen (Dall'oggi al domani, 1996), Sicilia! (1999), Operai, contadini (2001), Il viandante (cm, 2001), L'arrotino (cm, 2001), Dolando (cm, 2002), Il ritorno del figlio prodigo/Umiliati (2003), Une visite au Louvre (2004).

Danièle Huillet
Danièle Huillet was born in Paris on May 1, 1936. She grew up in the country and returned to Paris around 1948. She studied at the Jules Ferry high school. She prepared for the IDHEC, but refused to write about the film Menèges by Yves Allégret, which she held to be unfit for an exam.
FILMOGRAPHY
(Updated to the last partecipation to TFF)