Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Contents:
Violence and the Stones / Patrick Primavesi. Communism As Aesthetic Procedure / Ute Holl -- Refuse Collection : Schoenberg/Lachenmann-Straub/Huillet-J.H. Prynne / Ming Tsao -- Philologists at Work / Rembert Hüser, Nikolaus Wegmann -- "Hast Du Nicht Alles Mir Gesagt?" And Hölderlin's Native Reversal As Response / Barbara Ulrich -- A Revolutionary Copywriter Franco Forttni and His Relations To Film / Paolo Caffoni -- Abstract Furies: Memory and Resignation On The Storytelling Of Cesare Pavese and Elio Vittorini / Manfred Bauschulte -- Work, Progress: On The Resistance Of Peasants In the Work of Straub, Huillet, and Heiner Muller / Patrick Primavesi -- The Positions Were the Same, the Setting Was Completely Different / Rinaldo Censi, Giovanna Daddi, Armin Linke, Dario Marconcini -- You Fascists, You Ignoramuses, You Hypocrites / Volko Kamensky -- The Fire Inside The Mountain / Monika Fune Stern, Helge Heberle, Danièle Huillet -- History Lessons By Comparison / Luisa Greenfield -- How to Frame Losing Control: Dialogue / Annett Busch, Louis Henderson -- This Land First Speaks To You In Signs / Ala Younis -- Chance and the Cinematograph / Manfred Blank -- A Thousand Cliffs / Mikhail Lylov, Elke Marhöfer, Jean-Marie Straub -- Soils_Habit_Plants: A Public Conversation: a Public Conversation / Mikhail Lylov, Elke Marhöfer -- I Is An Other Eroticism in Soils_Habit_Plants / Makoto Mochida -- Site Inspections / Rinaldo Censi -- When The Image Doesn't Exist Yet / Renato Berta, Rinaldo Censi -- Paul Cézanne Directs a Film / Barton Byg -- Reframing What is Already Framed, Or: What is Wrong With Primitivism? / Florian Schneider -- Palace of the Slave / Oraib Toukan -- Violence and the Stones / Patrick Primavesi.
Summary:
Artists, scholars, filmmakers, and writers revisit the films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. Jean-Marie Straub (b. 1933) and Danièle Huillet (1936-2006) met in Paris in 1954. Straub wanted to make a film about Johann Sebastian Bach, to which Huillet thought: "He's planning to do far too much; he won't manage it alone." It was the beginning of a fifty-year collaboration, which brought about one of the most unconventional and controversial bodies of work in modern cinema. Tell it to the Stones presents variations from a prolonged re-encounter with Huillet and Straub's work that was sparked by a three-month exhibition, complete cinema retrospective, workshops, and music performances in Berlin in the fall of 2017. Contributing artists, scholars, filmmakers, and writers have revisited this collective experience in new texts, revised transcripts, conceptual essays, and visual montages. What happens during an encounter happens in-between: between language and image, gestures and words, looks and everything unsaid. "To help us build the in-between," is how Danièle Huillet once imagined a task for those who come to see their films. The present compendium revives these encounters and reveals the urgencies of how Straub and Huillet's oeuvre matters today, perhaps more than ever.--Provided by publisher.
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