Beiträge

  • Jacques Rancière & Philippe Lafosse | Politics and Aesthetics in the Straubs‘ Films

      Jacques Rancière, Philippe Lafosse and the public in conversation about Straub-Huillet after a screening of From the Clouds to the Resistance and Workers, Peasants Monday, February 16, 2004, Jean Vigo Cinema, Nice, France     PHILIPPE LAFOSSE: It seemed interesting to us, after having seen twelve films by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet and talked about them…

  • Georges Didi-Huberman | Light against Light

        The disappearance of the fireflies—when the blinding glare of spotlights crushes the weak glimmer of glowworms in the night—is an excellent poetic allegory, a lovely „speaking image“ on which to build something like a general poetics of light. This allegory has become familiar to us through the intervention of a great poet, Pier…