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

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.