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The international Straub Huillet continues throughout this year, and a world seminar of cinema and peasants begins this Monday.
“Antigone” by Straub and Huillet.
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On November 20, 2022, Jean-Marie Straub died at the age of 89. An earthquake in the rough environment of cinephilia, but an icy indifference everywhere else. With his partner Danièle Huillet (1936 – 2006), Straub had built a unique body of work, which provides food for thought and insight into the meaning of history, speech and narrative experienced as a whole. But where to see his movies? This is another problem. For more than a year, so long before the man died, the Sputnik cinema has passed through Straub and Huillet’s cinema. Without accumulating more.
And the cycle will continue. The international Huillet-Straub – to use Sputnik’s name – will take place a few days a month in 2023, roughly at the pace at which it began. Where to see his films, then, if not on Sputnik, which does the essential and somewhat rebellious work that it is, in the minds of those who created this country decades ago?
In anticipation of the continuation of an extensive filmography reviewed in a non-chronological sense, the Sputnik Cinema organizes a seminar entitled “Cinema and the Peasant World – an Attempt at Participatory Pedagogy”. It takes place from 30 to 1 Januaryer short. To use their words, it presents itself as three days of discussions, films, food, a little confused, for a small collective epic proposed by Federico Rossin, who is used to organizing experimental workshops. To register, you must pass cinema@sputnik.info. It costs 20 francs per day and 50 francs for everyone. It’s all worth a festival, isn’t it?
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