Ouverture

Jean-Marie Straub, who has created over 40 films with Danièle Huillet, is the special guest of the Centre Pompidou. The films produced by these two "artisans "of the cinema began in the early Sixties and drew their material from iconic artists in European culture, from Bach to Bertolt Brecht by way of Schoenberg, Kafka and Pavese. The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Othon and Sicilia! are the cornerstones of a dense, magnificent and committed body of work. Since the death of Danièle Huillet in 2006, Jean-Marie Straub has shot fifteen or so digital films. This evening, he presents his latest, as yet unreleased, commissioned by the Centre Pompidou for the series Où en êtes-vous?

Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene (1972, 15’) and Every Revolution is a Throw of the Dice (1977, 10’) by Straub and Huillet, followed by Incantati (2002, 6’, first screening), The Death of Venice (2013, 2’), For Renato (2015, 8’, first screening) and Où en êtes-vous, Jean-Marie Straub ? (2016, 15’, first screening), by Jean-Marie Straub.

With Jean-Marie Straub.