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SCHOENBERG’S OPERAS ‘VON HEUTE AUF MORGEN’ AND ‘MOSES AND AARON’ IN THE FILMS OF STRAUB AND HUILLET
As part of the first UK retrospective dedicated to the filmmakers Danièle Huillet (1936–2006, France) and Jean-Marie Straub (1933, France), the influential filmmakers’ repeated and complex engagement with the music and
words of composer Arnold Schoenberg will be the subject of screenings and workshops on 22/23 March and 1 June 2019.
Sat, 23 March, 2pm - Goethe-Institut London + Royal College of Music Film Screening
Workshop + Music Performance
‘Mama, what are modern people?’ Straub-Huillet’s adaptation of Schoenberg’s comic opera ‘From Today Until Tomorrow’
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21476534
Straub and Huillet offered a wildly original interpretation of Arnold Schoenberg’s rarely performed one act comic opera From FROM TODAY UNTIL TOMORROW (1929). The film was recorded live on stage with the music performed
by the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, conducted by the late Michael Gielen.
Offering a detailed reading of Straub and Huillet’s third Schoenberg film, this workshop includes a screening of the film and a performance of Schoenberg’s Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, op. 47, (1949),
performed live by Elizaveta Saul (violin) and Kumi Matsuo (piano) and introduced by Maiko Kawabata, Lecturer in Music at the Royal College of Music.
2.00pm: Film screening: From Today Until Tomorrow (35mm, 62mins), followed by workshop
17.30pm: Music Performance, Royal College of Music (near the Goethe-Institut)
On the eve of the workshop, on Friday 22 March, we are showing the silent classic THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE (1925) by the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer, which, also a comedy, deals with quarrels in a domestic household.
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Sat, 1 June, 2.30pm - Goethe-Institut London
Film Screening + Workshop on “Moses and Aaron”
‘On the Aesthetics of Equal Distribution’ -
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21483007
Arnold Schoenberg’s unfinished opera MOSES AND AARON composed to his own libretto between 1930 and 1932, tells the story of the calling of Moses, who lacked the gift of oratory, to lead his enslaved people to the Promised
Land, his conflict with his brother, Aaron, and the people’s descent into idolatry and ritual sacrifice. In 1974 Straub and Huillet filmed the opera live with pre-recorded orchestral music in the outdoor setting of the Alba Fucens amphitheatre in southern
Italy.
Following a screening of the film (1974, 105 min), media theorist Ute Holl will explore their adaptation of Arnold Schoenberg’s aesthetics of twelve tone composition through the filmic forms developed by the filmmakers.
On that basis she will discuss the issues of migration and exile, law and media, resistance and ‘the missing people’ as raised in Schoenberg’s opera and the film.
Venue Details
Goethe-Institut London
50 Princes Gate
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2PH
T +44 (0)20 7596 4000
The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, 1 March – 1 June 2019
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21471962
The first complete UK retrospective dedicated to the filmmakers.
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.
Maren Hobein
Project Co-ordinator for Film
Goethe-Institut London
50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2PH
T +44 20 7596 4047,
Maren.hobein@goethe.de
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