Danièle Huillet 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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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,...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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...

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

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