More opportunities to hear rare music from films as the audiovisual series entitled Strauboscopie, conceived by Giovanni Morelli, continues on Tuesday afternoons at 5.30 pm in the autumn. The series is devoted to the minor works of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. The two filmmakers met in 1954 and over the next fifty-two years of shared life and career they worked on twenty-eight complete films, various film and theatre tests and umpteen projects. Their use of music reflects their characteristic film procedures: a stylistic self-awareness and exploration of underground subversive forces typical of the language of music and of direct sound. A certain aphasia in the acting is a further subversive element allowing violent acts of fantasising to surface in the actor who is possessed by the word transmitted during filming by working with the duo of directors. Similarly, direct sound also plays a crucial role. As in Jean Renoir’s films, the background noise tends to be left to chance and reveals loving actions directing the shared attention of the audience and of the filmmakers to the real, as a universal solution of human knowledge.

4 October
:
 Each thought is an emission.
Machorka-Muff (1962), Fortini/Cani (1976)

18 October: At times the petty things of the world are confused with insults to the world.
Sicilia! (Version for theatre 1998, Teatro Francesco di Bartolo, Buti), Le rémouleur (2001)

8 November: There are no class struggles without tenderness.
Leçons d’ histoire (1972)

 15 November:
Combat opacity, fully aware that you can’t win.
Jean-Charles Fitoussi Sicilia! Si gira (2001)

22 November:
A place… a constellation.
En rachâchant (1982), Lothringen! (1994), Humiliés (2002),
Einleitung zu Arnold Schoenbergs Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene (1972)

29 November:Colours are the surface expression of depth.
Cézanne (1989), Une visite au Louvre (2003), Toute révolution est un coup de dés (1977)

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