Danièle Huillet Movies

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.

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

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...

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

A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a...

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

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

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

A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian...

"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...

The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

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

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...

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

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...

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

In his meetings with various different people, Jean-Luc Godard develops his thinking about history, politics, the cinema, images and time, and this...

A landmark work of symbolistic imagery. The words that the filmmakers speak offscreen are imaginary conversation with Cézanne quoted from a...