Jean-Marie Straub Movies

Six unused scenes from Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? One of the more priceless of the “bagatelles” in this collection features a...

Jean-Marie Straub reacts to an audience during a Straub-Huillet retrospective.

Reel 35 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

From Gérard Courant’s Cinématon series.

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

Straub's contribution to the omnibus film Future Reloaded, commissioned by the Venice Film Festival.

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

"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...

A short TV documentary about the making of Straub-Huillet's 'Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach'

An initiative from Pompidou Center, filmed by Jean Marie Straub.

In darkness, we hear a recording of the scandalous 1954 debut performance of Edgar Varèse’s revolutionary Déserts at the...

"The word 'revolution' to us Frenchmen is not a vague term. We know that Revolution is a rupture, that Revolution is an Absolute. There is no such...

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

Joachim Gatti, is the grand-son of the director and filmmaker Armand Gatti. During a demonstration in Montreuil, he lost an eye, hit by a...

Inspired by Rossellini's Europa '51 Straub-Huillet made a film consisting of two pans of a street corner in Paris.

Montage of one scene from Othon and set photos, made for a celebration of Renato Berta’s birthday at Stadtkino Basel on April 1, 2015.

With L’inconsolable, Jean-Marie Straub continues the mise en scène of Cesare Pavese’s Dialogues with Leucò, initiated in...

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