Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle (2010)

ALL 08/11/2010 (fr) Documentary 53 Min
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    08/11/2010
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  • Original title
    Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle
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Overview

In the summer of 1986, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub were working in the park of an old Sicilian mansion and in a clearing at the foot of Mount Etna shooting Der Tod des Empedokles. Assistant cameraman Jean-Paul Toraille toyed around, so to speak, with his first video camera, filming the daily work on the set. Now, 24 years later, he was joined by Jean-Marie Straub in editing the material into a film. Anyone who expected the shooting of Les Avatars de la mort d’Empédocle to be an austere affair, an exercise entirely devoid of humour or a Straubian tour de force is proven wrong: so much lightness, joy, concentration, spells of waiting for the sun to come out – and even proper slapstick in between – is hard to find.

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Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle (2010) 53 Min

ALL 08/11/2010 (fr)
Documentary
  • Release 08/11/2010
  • Production
  • Original title Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

In the summer of 1986, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub were working in the park of an old Sicilian mansion and in a clearing at the foot of Mount Etna shooting Der Tod des Empedokles. Assistant cameraman Jean-Paul Toraille toyed around, so to speak, with his first video camera, filming the daily work on the set. Now, 24 years later, he was joined by Jean-Marie Straub in editing the material into a film. Anyone who expected the shooting of Les Avatars de la mort d’Empédocle to be an austere affair, an exercise entirely devoid of humour or a Straubian tour de force is proven wrong: so much lightness, joy, concentration, spells of waiting for the sun to come out – and even proper slapstick in between – is hard to find.

  1. Jean-Paul Toraille

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Catherine Quesemand, Jean-Paul Toraille

    Editor

  4. Jean-Paul Toraille

    Producer