One can hardly speak of image-flow, as that implies flow of disparate images when what we are given is pure continuum, wherein darkness, lightness, tactility, flatness, pure space(?) (sky), filled space(?) (clouds, rocks, whatever), all function as non-ceasing existence. Inanimate. 'It' is there. But emphasis on there . No attempts to integrate that into an illusionistic hereness
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The significations are not psychological but epistemological. The film is not mythical. The secondary importance: the represented. A huge arena, empty, de-peopled,…

Accompanying, enjoyed reading: Encounter with Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. Quei loro incontri
By Emmanuel Burdeau y Jean-Michel Frodon /
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How did you see the possibility of a film in Dialoghi con Leucò?

J-MS: I don’t know anything about it, I don’t see anything at all. I began to write this (he shows the script, meaning, the cut-out dialogues) in the winter of 2004, we went to Buti in March 2004, we stayed there four weeks, we reviewed the…

(seen so far: reel 1, 2, 3, 9, 22, 26, 23, 31, 40, 47, 80, 81, 83) / highlight: reel 22, reel 81, reel 23

Truly beautiful and special work, with a remarkably incredible use of 2-ch audio filled with daily objects, monologues, in-ear breathing, alternating between overlapping sections and very distinctive one-channel use. The supporting music in the background of her voice recordings in reel 22 got me really excited in particular (no surprise).

Getting to know her work…