Danièle Huillet Movies

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

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

A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the third version of Friedrich...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

An alternate look at a part of Sicilia, perhaps left out for its more straightforward didactic quality. Interesting to again see the long gaps. Also...

Documentary about the shooting of Straub's Antigone.

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

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

A man returns to visit his native Sicily after living in New York for a long time. He learns about the Sicilian way of life from stylized...

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

"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 fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian...