STONES, OR WHAT IS LEFT
Marguerite Duras, David Lamelas, Lutz Mommartz (mit Jürgen Kuhfuß), Jean-Marie Straub/Danièle Huillet
3 November 2016

 

Film program me as part of the exhibition "Straub/Huillet/Weiss. Alienation Towards Our Small Familiar World“, selected and introduced by Regina Barunke

David Lamelas: Time As Activity - Düsseldorf, 1969, 12:55 min
Lutz Mommartz, mit Jürgen Kuhfuß: Denkmäler, 1972, 13 min
Marguerite Duras: Les mains négatives, 1978, 14 min
Jean-Marie Straub/Danièle Huillet: Une Visite au Louvre, 2004, 49 min

"We wanted to show something that was shaped by the past, something that affected us, and to give it to the people so they could deal with it, just as we dealt with it when we made the film", the French filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet wrote about their motivation for their film about Schoenberg’s ‘Accompaniment’. This film, which is on show in the current exhibition, serves as an example for an artistic-filmic consideration about the solidification of time and petrificated history. The selected filmic works pursue the visual and linguistic forms of history and repeatedly encounter the motif of the monument as both an accumulator and catalyst of social change, which, in turn, continuously is written into our own memory.

Images
1 — Lutz Mommartz (mit Jürgen Kuhfuß): Denkmäler, 1972
2 — David Lamelas: Time As Activity - Düsseldorf, 1969
3 — Jean-Marie Straub/Danièle Huillet: Une Visite au Louvre, 2004