Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub

24 April, 2014 - 19:30
Université Populaire, Brussels
screening

www.universitepopulaire.be

At the invitation of Arenberg Cinémas Nomades.

Umiliati (Humiliated)

Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub
,
IT
,
2003
,
video
,
colour
,
34'

The survivors of World War II wander throughout liberated Italy, searching for their past and a future. Tired of wandering, a group of men and women who’ve lost everything, decide to try to restore something from among the rubble and to set out on a new life. Based on extracts from Le Donne di Messina by Elio Vittorini.

Sicilia!

Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub
,
IT
,
1999
,
video
,
66'

Based on Elio Vittorini’s Conversations in Sicily, narrating the return of an intellectual to his native Sicily after a long absence. Moving beyond the original’s immediate context—the increasing oppression of pre-war Italy—Straub/Huillet offer a touching look at the state of permanent exile common to all of those who can’t go home again.