Christophe Clavert

France Against the Robots (2020)

"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 thing as a moderate revolution, there is no such thing as a planned revolution—as one speaks of a planned e ...

Little President (2020)

The media hype didn't do any good for the Calais Jungle. Far from such echoes, Christophe Clavert's concern is to come back to the sites – afterwards, otherwise. Beginning with clarifications as to how to do things. Thus, by way of a preamble, the scrupu ...

L’Aquarium et la Nation (2015)

A film in three parts: An aquarium, a man sitting at a table reading various text passages, and a sequence from Jean Renoir's film LA MARSEILLAISE. This is all from a film by Jean-Marie Straub – about fate, the soul and the cosmos, about the evident natu ...

The Algerian War! (2014)

In a single static shot a man is threatened with death at another's gunpoint. ...

Communists (2014)

Jean-Marie Straub pushes this musicality of blocks to a paroxysmal extreme, mixing blocks of time (40 years separate the various extracts that are going to be used, and what is to be filmed), blocks of text (Malraux, Fortini, Vittorini, Hölderlin) and blo ...

Concerning Venice (2014)

The glory and collapse of the grand Republic of Venice: the reasons are numerous, complex, human and all too human. Are these the same ingredients, the mélange that might determine whether the current Europe will survive? And if so, under what conditions? ...

Dialogue of Shadows (2013)

Jean-Marie Straub's new film closes the circle. The years 1954–2013 are displayed as representing a film produced in collaboration with Danièle Huillet. The two had met in Paris in 1954, around the year they came across the text by Georges Bernanos, to ...

Un conte de Michel de Montaigne (2013)

Master filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub continues his exploration of classic texts with this "collaboration" with the great 16th-century writer of the Essais. ...

La Mort de Venise (2013)

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

Salvo (2013)

Salvo, a ruthless Sicilian Mafia hit man, changes his priorities after being involved in a bloody ambush. ...

La Madre (2012)

Inspired by a Cesar Pavese's short story, this film has as its main question the relationship with the mother. After killing someone, Meleagros is killed by his own mother, from whom he had never disconnected. ...

Un héritier (2012)

In 1994, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet adapted the novel Colette Baudoche – Story of a Young Girl of Metz by Maurice Barrès as a film they titled Lothringren!. In 2010, Jean-Marie Straub returned to the eastern provinces of France, this time to ...

La fuite du jour (2011)

Jackals and Arabs (2011)

A Kafka dialogue is read by actors in Straub's own apartment in Paris. ...

L’Inconsolable (2011)

With L'inconsolable, Jean-Marie Straub continues the mise en scène of Cesare Pavese's Dialogues with Leucò, initiated in 1978 with Dalla nube alla resistenza and followed up in 2006, 2007 and 2008 with Quei loro incontri, Artemis's Knee and Le streghe †...

Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment (2009)

Co-director Cornelia Geiser sits by a window on an easy chair reading aloud a few verses by Corneille, then a somewhat longer excerpt from Brecht - each writer referencing Rome but really condemning injustice in his own era. ...

France Against the Robots (2020)

"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 thing as a moderate revolution, there is no such thing as a planned revolution—as one speaks of a planned e ...

People of the Lake (2018)

More than a land, it is from the lake that this son comes. Raised by a father fisherman, he learned his noises and currents, maybe also its hardness at the same time as that of adults. Lake is also a border, but in the water his drawing is lost: in the f ...

The Algerian War! (2014)

In a single static shot a man is threatened with death at another's gunpoint. ...