Please allow us to update you on the latest changes of the program OF A PEOPLE WHO ARE MISSING

After the overwhelming experience of the first two studios with marvelous screenings in 16mm and 35mm as well as great presentations by Benoît Turquety and Sally Shafto we are looking forward very much to STUDIO 3 which is centered around the Hoelderlin films which are in a certain way centerpieces in the work of Huillet and Straub.

There have been a few changes in the program and we are very sorry that both, Anna Fiaccarini and Rinaldo Censi from the Cineteca di Bologna who have supported our project wholeheartedly had to cancel after all.

At the same time we are glad to announce the contribution of Barton Bygg, long-time collaborator of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, author of "Landscapes of Resistance", and founding director of the DEFA film library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Barton Bygg will join the roundtable debate "The homeless' archive" together with Barbara Ulrich and Klaus Volkmer on Saturday evening. In this debate we want to focus on current challenges and future perspectives of preserving, archiving and last but not least distributing the films and the work of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.

Please find below the program for the next two days:

04 December 2009 18:00

Robert Bramkamp and Tim Liebe: The digital Empedokles

How could "Death of Empedokles", a film from 1986 based on the drama by German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, be envisioned in the year 2009? Filmmaker Robert Bramkamp will talk about formats and will question forms of mediation and a possible rediscovery of the unique quality which is present in the "kinematographic material". The digital presence of a new copy made from the first reel of the Hamburger version is a starting point but will not only lead to questions of distribution but also black holes. Black holes from two interviews, Robert Bramkamp made with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet in 1986 and 1997 and filmed on 16mm. Where the image is black as the material was short, new voices will re-enact and speak now, 2009, when nobody could imagine to complain about the lack of material. A conversation between a 16mm past and a digital presence. Together with Tim Liebe and Hubertus Müll among others.

04 December 2009 20:00

Der Tod des Empedokles - Oder wenn der Erde Grün von neuem euch erglänzt Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, 1986, France/Germany, 132 min., 35mm-projection, German Version

In "The Death of Empedocles" the Straubs bring to the screen a poet no one would dare imagine. Friedrich Hölderlin's "Empedocles" is adapted as a "communist dream" of life among equal people, peace and harmony with nature.

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05 December 2009 15:00

Operai Contadini Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, 2000, Italy, 123 min., 35mm projection, Italian with french subtitles

Just as they previously did with Cesare Pavese in "From the Clouds to the Resistance", the Straubs bring to the screen Elio Vittorini, a great Italian writer to whom they remain true over a number of films. "Workers, Peasants" tells the story of a practical, political utopia: the attempt to create a new, different society among the Greeks immediately after the war.

05 December 2009 18:00

Itinéraire de Jean Bricard Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, 2008, France, 40 min. 35mm projection, French Version

Based on the book by Jean-Yves Petiteau, Itinéraire de Jean Bricard is the last film that Straub and Huillet made together. In it they show us the Loire in long moving takes of the river in silvery black-and-white.

05 December 2009 19:30

Barbara Ulrich, Barton Byg, Klaus Volkmer: The homeless' archive. Current challenges and future perspectives of preserving, archiving, and distributing the work of Huillet-Straub