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Fri 14 Nov - Fri 5 Dec

FILMS BY JEAN-MARIE STRAUB AND DANIÈLE HUILLET AT TATE MODERN
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The following films will be shown at Tate Modern as part of bfi & Tate,
an ongoing collaboration between the British Film Institute and the
cinemas of Tate Britain and Tate Modern:

Fri 14 Nov 7pm

MACHORKA-MUFF
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Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, W Germany 1962, 18 min, English
subtitles

Böll's satirical story about the post-war rearmament of West Germany is
turned into 'a fast-paced, acerbic and spare little documentary' (John
Sandford).

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NOT RECONCILED
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(Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht)
Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, W Germany 1965, 53 min, English
subtitles

A cool, hard look at the fatal continuities in pre- and post-war German
history, based on a novel by Heinrich Böll. In the filmmakers' own
words, they discarded the picturesque and anecdotal elements of the
novel 'to create through the story of a middle-class German family from
1910 to our times a pure cinematographic, moral and political
reflection on the last fifty years of German life, a kind of film
oratorio'.


Fri 21 Nov 7pm

STRAUB AND HUILLET SHORTS
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THE BRIDEGROOM; THE COMEDINE AND THE PIMP
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(Der Bräutigam, Die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter)
W Germany 1968, 23min, English subtitles

Performed by Fassbinder and other members of his Munich Action-Theater
group, this features a two-hour play by Austrian dramatist Ferdinand
Bruckner (pared down to a few minutes), poems by St John of the Cross
and a Bach chorale.

INTRODUCTION TO ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG'S 'ACCOMPANIMENT TO A CINEMATOGRAPHIC
SCENE'
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(Einleitung zu Arnold Schoenbergs 'Begleitmusik zu einer
Lichtspielscene') W Germany 1972, 15min, English subtitles
Letters by Schoenberg on the theme of anti-semitism, a statement by
Brecht concerning the relationship between fascism and capitalism, plus
archive footage of B52s taking off.

EVERY REVOLUTION IS A THROW OF THE DICE
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(Toute révolution est un coup de dés)
France 1977, 11min, English subtitles

The Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris: the words of a Mallarmé poem are
assigned to nine different speakers. Framing, duration and timbre of
voice evoke the poem's experiments with typography.

EN RACHACHANT
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France 1982, 10min, English subtitles
This delightful short is based on a children's story by Marguerite
Duras.


Sun 23 Nov 3pm

CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH
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(Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach)
Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, W Germany 1967, 93', English
subtitles

This beautiful, lucid account of the last 27 years of the life of J. S.
Bach, seen through the eyes of his second wife, is mediated partly
through documents but mostly through Bach's own music performed in
original locations and 'used neither as accompaniment nor as commentary
but as aesthetic material in its own right' (Straub). With Dutch
harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt in the title role.


Sun 30 Nov 3pm

TOO EARLY, TOO LATE
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(Trop tôt, trop tard)
Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, France 1982, 105min, English
subtitles

The offscreen reading of a letter by Friedrich Engels describing the
misery of the countryside of the eve of the French Revolution is
juxtaposed with an excerpt from Mahmoud Hussein's 'Class Conflict in
Egypt, 1945-1970'. There are no actors in the film but, says Danièle
Huillet, 'there are landscapes and they are treated exactly as if they
were people'.


Fri 5 Dec 7pm

CLASS RELATIONS
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(Klassenverhältnisse)
Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, W Germany 1984, 127', English
subtitles

Widely admired by critics, this is based on Kafka's novel fragment
'Amerika' about the land of promise that turns out to be just as
corrupt as the old world. The text is articulated with syncopated
pauses and a range of speech registers reminiscent of Schoenberg, thus
defamiliarizing German language and culture and opening up new
possibilities for their reception.

Tickets £3.50 (£2 concessions)
Box Office: 020 7887 8888 or [log in to unmask]

Venue: Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
www.tate.org.uk