22 August 2017
Tell It to the Stones
The Work of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
Exhibition – Film Retrospective – Rencontres – Arnold Schönberg Week
14 September – 19 November 2017
Invitation to the Press Preview:
Wednesday 13th September 2017, 1 pm
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
Registration requested: Tel. +49 (0)30 679 282 69 or mail@rische-pr.de
With
Annett Busch, Curator of the exhibition
Tobias Hering, Curator of the exhibition
Alexander Horwath, Director of the Austrian Film Museum and Member of the Akademie der Künste
Ming Tsao, Composer
Luisa Greenfield, Artist
The Akademie der Künste is dedicating an extensive two-month programme cycle to the oeuvre of Danièle Huillet (1936 - 2006) and Jean-Marie Straub (*1933). Tell It to the Stones - The Work of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub opens up new perspectives on the cinematic work of both filmmakers by placing the films in an interdisciplinary context: The exhibition highlights their working method, relating it to current artistic positions. To talk about and debate the films had always been an integral part of the practice of Huillet/Straub. During the exhibition, multi-day Rencontres will invite the public to take up diverse ways of speaking and forms of debate. The second week of October highlights the references to the composer Arnold Schönberg which are of central importance for several films. The programme is rounded off and accompanied by a complete retrospective of the films in four venues – the first in Berlin since 1990.
The objective of the exhibition is to make visible the work on the films which typically remains invisible. It bears witness to the traces of translation and mediation between an idea and its technical implementation, thereby inevitably placing particular emphasis on Danièle Huillet’s contribution to the collaborative work. The exhibition space is structured by Jean-Marie Straub’s film Kommunisten (2014), a six-part retrospective and compilation of the collaborative oeuvre. Numerous documents from various institutional and private collections introduce the creative processes, specific locations, and a wide network of colleagues, friends, and supporters. At the same time, the exhibition also reflects the contemporary relevance of the oeuvre. Six international contemporary artists have produced new works which take up, continue, annotate, and redirect the aesthetic and topographic journeys in Huillet/Straub's oeuvre.
A programme of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, curated by Annett Busch and Tobias Hering. In cooperation with BELVA Film, and the Zeughauskino, Brotfabrik, and fsk cinemas. Funded by the Capital Cultural Fund, supported by ifa. Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Cineteca di Bologna, Austrian Film Museum, and University of Gothenburg – Academy of Music and Drama; held as part of
Berlin Art Week.
Tell It to the Stones
The Work of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
Exhibition – Film Retrospective – Rencontres – Arnold Schönberg Week
14th September – 19th November 2017
Exhibition opening: Wednesday, 13th September 2017, 7 pm, free admission
Welcoming address: Jeanine Meerapfel, President of the Akademie der Künste and Alexander Horwath, Director of the Austrian Film Museum
9 pm: Opening film Von Heute auf Morgen (From Today Until Tomorrow, Huillet/Straub, 1996, 62 min.), Introduction: Diedrich Diederichsen
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin, Tel. +49 (0) 30 200 57-2000
Events:
Fri-Sun, 15-17 Sept 17 Rencontre I – talks, lectures, film programme
Arnold Schönberg Week
Sat/Sun, 7/8 Oct17 The Moses Complex, Workshop with Ute Holl on Moses und Aron (Moses and Aaron, film and opera)
Wed, 11 Oct 17 Refuse Collection by Ming Tsao, public rehearsal, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, conductor: Stefan Schreiber
Thu, 12 Oct 17 Refuse Collection, premiere, concert + film
Sat, 14 Oct 17 Refuse Collection, concert + film
Sun, 15. Oct 17 Opening of the retrospective
Fri/Sat, 10/11 Nov 17 Rencontre II – talks, lectures, film programme
Sat, 11 Nov 17 New Composers Collective / Astrid Ofner
premiere, music performance
Press contact on behalf of the Akademie der Künste:
rische & co pr, Claudia Rische, Tel. +49 (0) 30 679 282 69, mail@rische-pr.de