STRAUB & HUILLET AND HÖLDERLIN
SCREENINGS AND LECTURE
Friday 12 + Saturday 13 April, Goethe-Institut London
As part of the 'The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet', the first complete UK retrospective of the films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, the Goethe-Institut London presents a two-day focus on the filmmakers’ engagement with the work of Friedrich Hölderlin partly pursued via Bertolt Brecht.
Onn Saturday, 13 April at 4pm, theatre expert Patrick Primavesi from the University of Leipzig will be at the Goethe-Institut to give a lecture entitled STAGES OF VIOLENCE. ANTIGONE BY STRAUB/HUILLET, BETWEEN THEATRE AND FILM.
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21486510
SCHEDULE
THE DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES + BLACK SIN
Friday 12 April 2019, 6.15pm
The programme brings together Straub and Huillet’s adaptations of Hölderlin’s first and third version of his unfinished mourning play about the pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles, who ended his life in the crater of Mount Etna. Huillet and Straub filmed in Siciily, at and around the vulcano, with the heat, intense light, and wind becoming part of the fabric of the film.
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21486502
OH SUPREME LIGHT + CÉZANNE. CONVERSATION WITH JOACHIM GASQUET
Saturday 13 April 2019, 2pm
A short film in praise of light based on lines from Dante’s Divine Comedy is shown together with Huillet and Straub’s tribute to their favourite painter, Paul Cézanne, which they based on the memoires of the French writer and critic Joachim Gasquet. The inclusion of two excerpts from their The Death of Empedocles in this film points to the link between the painter and Empedocles as arbiters between art and nature. And both films feature mountains of fire, the vulcano Mount Etna (Empedocles) and Mount Sainte-Victorie (Cézanne), about which the painter said, “Look at this mountain, it was once fire.”
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21486509
STAGES OF VIOLENCE. ANTIGONE BY STRAUB/HUILLET, BETWEEN THEATRE AND FILM
LECTURE
Saturday 13 April 2019, 4pm
In his lecture theatre expert Patrick Primavesi will discuss the question of violence in Sophokle's Antigone translated by Hölderlin in the version by Brecht and the adaptation by Huillet and Straub.
Patrick Primavesi is professor and head of department at the Institute of Theatre Studies at the University of Leipzig. He wrote his PhD on Walter Benjamin’s theories about commentary, translation and theatre and published widely on Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Müller, on contemporary theatre, dance and performance art. For decades, he has also been writing on the work of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, in particular on their films Antigone, The Death of Empedocles / Black Sin, From Until Tomorrow, Sicilia!, Workers, Peasants.
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21486510
THE BRIDEGROOM, THE ACTRESS AND THE PIMP + THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES AFTER HÖLDERLIN’S TRANSLATION ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE BY BRECHT 1948
Saturday 13 April 2019, 6.30pm
As the title makes clear, Straub and Huillet based their film on Brecht’s politicised adaptation of Hölderlin’s translation of the Greek tragedy, in which, following Thebes’ civil war, Antigone buries her brother against the will of the new ruler. Premiered just three years after World War II, Brecht’s version portrays war and violence as results of the failure and mismanagement of government. The film is shown with the short The Bridegroom..., about which Danièle Huillet said that in it “the oppression of women is very clear.”
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21486520
Venue:
Goethe-Institut London
50 Princes Gate
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2PH
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Part of The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, 1 March – 1 June 2019
The first complete UK Retrospective
Various London Venues. For more information visit www.goethe.de/uk
The retrospective is organised by the Goethe-Institut London in collaboration with BELVA Film and in partnership with BFI Southbank, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), the Institut Français, Close-Up Film Centre, King’s College London, the German Screen Studies Network, the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Images (BIMI), and the Whitechapel Gallery.
With the kind support from the Embassy of Switzerland in the UK, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Londra, the Instituto Camões, BIRMAC (Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture) and the Department of German, King’s College London.
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