Filmmaker Manfred Blank (director of the excellent Pharos of Chaos) interviews Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub at some length about their then-current production, Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations), in which he, himself, performed as an actor.
Direction
Blank captures two artists who absolutely refuse to perform for camera.
Writing
Every sentence could destroy your film studies professor.
Director
Manfred Blank
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Straub-Huillet were cinema's most notorious couple, living together for decades while refusing to be photographed touching. Their entire practice was anti-commercial to the point of comedy.
Blank later made Pharos of Chaos, one of the greatest documentaries about an impossible actor—perhaps he learned something here about watching difficult artists be difficult.
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