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Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet ABOUT the FILM MIGUEL ABREU GALLERY the film and video works of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet 88 Eldridge Street / 36 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002 • 212.995.1774 • fax 646.688.2302 [email protected] • www.miguelabreugallery.com MIGUEL ABREU GALLERY MIGUEL ABREU GALLERY JEAN-MARIE STRAUB & DANIÈLE HUILLET Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub directed twenty-eight feature films in their fifty-two years of shared life and work, creating an oeuvre that is one of the most unique and uncompromising in modern cinema. Their vast filmography is as diverse as the material that served as the bases of many of their narratives, including writings by Brecht, Hölderlin, Duras, Kafka, Pavese and Vittorini, as well as music by Bach and Schoenberg. Straub and Huillet often reinterpreted forgotten or overlooked classical works, investing them with a renewed polemical relevance. Their films bring stories of class struggle and resistance to the surface, examining post-war power relations and offering a critique of capitalism throughout history and across linguistic and territorial borders. Created with intense rigor, beauty and political commitment, each of their deeply inventive films demands our full attention at every moment, presenting cinema as something both surprising and necessary. Straub and Huillet’s films reflect the couple’s creativity and generosity, their solidarity with their collaborators, and their respect for language and nature. Critic Louis Séguin wrote that Straub and Huillet “belong to a non-hierarchical and frontierless clan of rebels, stateless persons and social misfits, and the challenge of their cinema matches this permanent irreducibility.” 88 Eldridge Street / 36 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002 • 212.995.1774 • fax 646.688.2302 88 Eldridge [email protected] / 36 Orchard Street, New York, • www.miguelabreugallery.comNY 10002 • 212.995.1774 • fax 646.688.2302 [email protected] • www.miguelabreugallery.com MACHORKA-MUFF 1963, West Germany, 35 mm, B&W, 1.37:1, 18 min. Film by jean-marie straub and danièle huillet ABOUT THE FILM Based on “Bonn Diary” by Heinrich Böll. With Erich Kuby, Renate Langsdorff. Relishing his political and sexual prospects in postwar Germany, a former Nazi colonel muses on the stupidity of the bourgeoisie, who can be easily duped in the voting booth and in the bedroom. Straub and Huillet’s first released film is a powerful, almost surreal, distillation of Böll’s story, skewering the German soul through gallows humor, an interior monologue of calculation and cynicism, and a montage of jingoistic newspaper headlines. Straub would observe that the film is “built on the equation M [military] = M3 [murder].” [The] former Nazi officer enters the West German capital in triumph to lay the cornerstone for the Academy of Military Memories and is welcomed by the political, religious, and aristocratic elites. In interviews, Straub has referred to Machorka- Muff as the story of a rape—the rape of Germany by the military—whereas Not Reconciled is the story of the frustration of violence, since a German rebellion against twentieth-century militarism and Nazism never occurred. — Barton Byg CREDITS Ein bildhaft abstrakter Traum, keine Geschichte. Jean-Marie Straub. (A metaphorically abstract dream, not a story.) [Handwritten in opening credits]. Text: Heinrich Böll,“Hauptstädtisches Journal” (Bonn Diary) in the collection Dr. Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen (Murke’s Collected Silences), 1958. Direction: Jean-Marie Straub, Assistance: Danièle Huillet. Actors: Renate Langsdorff (Inn), Dr. Johannes Eckardt (the priest), Dr. Rolf Thiede (Murcks-Maloch), Günther Strupp (Heffling), Heiner Braun (the minister), Gino Cardella (the waiter), Julius Wikidal (the mason). Photography: Wendelin Sachtler,Assistance: Hans Christof Brüning; Lighting: Franz Schinabeck;Window Dressing: Franz Schinabeck. Sound: Janos Rozmer, Jean-Marie Straub. Music: François Louis, organ, from his composition “Permutations,” 1957; J. S. Bach, The Musical Offering, BWV 1079, “Ricercar a 6,” 1747. Editing: Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, C.P. Lemmer. Production: Straub and Huillet, Munich;Atlas-Film, Duisburg; Cineropa-Film, Munich; Producer:Walter Krüttner; Production Manager: Hans von der Heydt; Location Manager: Hansdieter Seel. Production dates and locations: September 1962, 10 days, Bonn and Munich. Budget: 31,000 DM. First screenings: 1963 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (February), out of competition; 1969 New Yorker Theater (February 23); London Film Festival, (November 18). TV: 1969 ARD – West Germany (August 25). nicht versöhnt oder es hilft nur gewalt, wo gewalt herrscht (not reconciled, or only violence helps where violence rules) 1965, West Germany, 35 mm, B&W, 1.37:1, 55 min. Film by jean-marie straub and danièle huillet ABOUT THE FILM Based on Billiards at Half-Past Nine by Heinrich Böll. With Henning Harmssen, Ernst Kutzinski, Ulrich von Thüna. “Long live dynamite!” Straub and Huillet attempt to unmoor their audience by denying them the soothing reassurances of conventional storytelling, spatial continuity, or psychological explanation as they hopscotch across the chronologies of Heinrich Böll’s novel, moving freely between the Kaiser autocracy of the 1910s and the Adenauer economic miracle of the 1950s. In doing so, they chart the origins and legacy of Nazism, and the moral demands of obedience and sacrifice within the German bourgeois family. The film and the novel on which it was based concentrate a vigorous critique of German fascism and militarism, a memorial to the victims, and fragments of German history and domestic life over the decades as viewed through the kaleidoscope of a single day. The relation of history, time, and memory in Not Reconciled anticipates the dichotomy between word and image in Moses and Aaron: memory is invoked here by the lack of an image, by absence and paralyzed time. Not Reconciled traces the recovery of denied memories in three generations of a family of Cologne architects. The men have repeatedly subordinated their architectural skill to military purposes, at great human cost, and the grandmother, Johanna, commits a “terrorist” act to force a confrontation with this legacy. — Barton Byg CREDITS Anstatt der Eindruck hervorrufen zu wollen, er improvisiere, soll der Schauspieler lieber zeigen, was die Wahrheit ist: er zitiert. Bertolt Brecht. (Instead of wanting to create the impression that he is improvising, the actor should instead show what is the truth: he is quoting.) [Quote in opening credits]. Text: Heinrich Böll, Billard um halbzehn (Billiards at Half-Past Nine), 1959. Direction: Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. Actors: Henning Harmssen (Robert Fähmel, 40 years old), Georg Zander (Hugo, hotel boy and Ferdinand “Ferdi” Progulske), Ulrich Hopmann (Robert Fähmel, 18 years old), Ernst Kutzinski (Schrella, 15 years old), Jochen Grüner, Günter Göbel, Peter Berger, Klaus Weyer, Eberhard Ellrich, Norbert Pritz, Bernd Wagner,Michael Krüger,JosephVollmert,Dieter Hornberg, Egbert Meiers, Ralf Kurth, Jürgen Beier, Michael Holy, Engelbert Greis,Wolfgang Kück, Herbert Gammersbach, Rolf Buhl, Peter Kneip, Gerd Lenze, Erdmann Dortschy, Piero Poli, Margrit Borstel (blond who knits), Diana Schlesinger, Karin Kraus, Claudia Wurm, Frouwke van Herwynen, Ise Maassen, Dagmar von Netzer, Hartmut Kirchner, Jürgen Kraeft, Achim Wurm, Max Dietrich Willutzki, Hannelore Langhoff, Johanna Odry, Günther Becker,Willy Bruno Wange, Stefan Odry, Anita Bell (old woman playing cards), Erika Brühl (Edith, Schrella’s sister),Werner Brühl (Trischler), Helga Brühl (Mrs.Trischler), Paul Esser, Hans Zander, Karl Bodenschatz (porter), Heiner Braun (Nettlinger), Heinrich Hargesheimer (Heinrich Fähmel, Robert’s father, 80 years old), Huguette Sellen (Robert Fähmel’s secretary), Ulrich von Thüna (Schrella, 35 years old),Walter Brenner, Chargesheimer, Rudolf Thome, Claudio Domberger, Lutz Grübnau (first abbot), Hans Schönberger, Karsten Peters, Kai A. Niemeyer, Danièle Straub (young Johanna), Franz Menzel, Martin Trieb (second abbot), Kim Sachtler,Walter Talmon-Gros, Joe Hembus, Max Zihlmann, Maurie Fischbein, Martha Ständer (Johanna Fähmel, Robert’s mother, 70 years old), Christel Meuser,Wendelin Sachtler (Mull), Eva-Maria Bold (Ruth Fähmel, Robert’s daughter), Joachim Weiler (Joseph Fähmel, Robert’s son), Hiltraud Wegener (Marianne, Jospeh’s fiancée), Kathrin Bold (Ferdinand’s sister), Annie Lautner, Johannes Buzalski, Eduard von Wickenburg (M.), Gottfried Bold (M.’s colleague),Victor von Halem (M.’s other colleague), Beate Speith. Photography: Wendelin Sachtler, Gerhard Ries, Christian Schwarzwald, Jean-Marie Straub. Sound: Lutz Grübnau and Willi Hanspach; Sound Mix: Paul Schöler, Aventin, Munich. Music: Conducted by François Louis, Geneva. Bela Bartók, Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (first movement, measures 1–10); J.S.Bach,Orchestral Suite No.2 in B Minor, BWV 1067 (opening). Production: Straub and Huillet, Munich; Production Manager: Danièle Huillet, Assistance: Max DietrichWillutzki,Uschi Fritsche. Production dates and locations: August– September 1964 and April 1965, 6 + 2 weeks, at 45 different locations, in and around Cologne, in the Eifel Mountains, and Munich. Budget: 117,000 DM. First screenings: 1965 Berlin Film Festival (July 4), unofficial; Bergamo Film Festival, Grand Prize; New York Film Festival (September 18); London Film Festival (November 15); 1966 Cahiers du cinéma Week, Paris; Pesaro Film Festival,Young Critics Prize and New Film Prize – jury:
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