Back to At Home SEPTEMBER ARRIVALSNew this month on Metrograph At Home. Featuring live footage of musician Devonté Hynes (Blood Orange), this is the first documentary devoted to the life and work of the late composer Julius Eastman.A DIFFERENT SCOREAnaïs Ngbanzo | 35 min | 2023 Straub reflects on his own mortality by way of Montaigne.A TALE BY MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEJean-Marie Straub | 33 min | 2013 Bertolt Brecht’s adaptation of Sophocles’s Antigone performed in its entirety; Straub and Huillet’s final film set in the ancient world.ANTIGONEJean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 100 min | 1991 Drawing inspiration from Tourneur’s I Walked with a Zombie, Costa creates an atmospheric and unsettling rumination on his homeland’s colonial past.CASA DE LAVAPedro Costa | 105 min | 1994 Straub’s moving tribute to his longtime collaborator and partner Danièle Huillet.COMMUNISTSJean-Marie Straub | 72 min | 2014 Straub’s meditation on the glories and decline of the Venetian Republic.CONCERNING VENICEJean-Marie Straub | 24 min | 2013 The story of two distant lovers united by a shared love for Bach’s Cantata 140 (“Sleepers Wake”).DIALOGUE OF SHADOWSJean-Marie Straub | 28 min | 2013 Actor Dolando Bernardini delivers a stirring a cappella performance of the 1581 epic poem Jerusalem Delivered.DOLANDOJean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 7 min | 2002 Straub and Huillet’s charming adaptation of Marguerite Duras’s 1971 children’s story Ah! Ernesto.EN RACHÂCHANTJean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 7 min | 1982 Straub and Huillet’s final collaboration released during the latter’s life.EUROPA 2005, 27 OCTOBERJean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 12 min | 2006 A collection of Straub and Huillet’s friends take turns reading from a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé.EVERY REVOLUTION IS A THROW OF THE DICEJean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 11 min | 1977 El Zohairy’s absurdist satire observes the transformations that occur in an Egyptian family after a children’s birthday party goes awry.FEATHERSOmar El Zohairy | 114 min | 2021 Straub’s final completed film, the last gesture of resistance in a filmography comprised of nothing but.FRANCE AGAINST THE ROBOTSJean-Marie Straub | 10 min | 2020 A screwball comedy-inspired reworking of an opera by Straub and Huillet touchstone Arnold Schönberg.FROM TODAY UNTIL TOMORROWJean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 62 min | 1996 A short work in conversation with history, Italian literature, and Straub and Huillet’s 2001 film The Return of the Prodigal Son.INCANTATIJean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 5 min | 2002 Two HIV-positive Black men reflect on their experience living with AIDS.KISS OF LIFEClifford Prince King | 7 min | 2022 Straub revisits his native country. A homecoming and a reckoning.LOTHRINGEN!Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 20 min | 1994 Hervé Guibert’s harrowing and moving document of his own body’s deterioration after being diagnosed with AIDS.MODESTY AND SHAMEHervé Guibert | 62 min | 1992 A riveting document of NYC’s ground-breaking musical avant-garde scene, shot in 1971 and released 40 years later.NEW MUSIC: SOUNDS AND VOICES FROM THE AVANT-GARDE NEW YORK 1971Hans G. Helms | 51 min | 2010 The compassionate and disarmingly beautiful opening of Costa’s astonishing career.O SANGUEPedro Costa | 95 min | 1989 The final stanzas of Dante’s Divine Comedy are recited on a Tuscan hillside.O SOMMA LUCCE!Jean-Marie Straub | 18 min | 2009 Straub’s reflective look at the northern shores of Lake Geneva, his adopted home.PEOPLE OF THE LAKEJean-Marie Straub | 18 min | 2018 A film in dialogue with the work of one of Straub and Huillet’s less likely influences, D.W. Griffith.PROPOSITION IN FOUR PARTSJean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 42 min | 1985 A conscientious objector to his country’s war in Algeria, Straub brings a personal perspective to this late film about an ex-soldier who encounters a ghost.THE ALGERIAN WAR!Jean-Marie Straub | 2 min | 2014 Straub’s beguiling cosmic, involving a fish tank in a Chinese restaurant in Paris.THE AQUARIUM AND THE NATIONJean-Marie Straub | 31 min | 2015 Vasconcelos’s magic realist hybrid documentary tells the story of the filmmaker’s family history with lyrical, dreamlike imagery.THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDSCatarina Vasconcelos | 101 min | 2020 Costa’s solemn and sumptuous Vitalina Varela gives center stage to Vitalena, a Cape Verdean widow, as she begins to establish a new life.VITALINA VARELAPedro Costa | 124 min | 2019 An intimate insight into Costa’s creative process through his dialogue with two of his premiere artistic inspirations, filmmaker duo Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.WHERE DOES YOUR HIDDEN SMILE LIE?Pedro Costa | 104 min | 2001 Straub and Huillet’s stirring ode to resistance, comprised of a chorus of readings from anti-fascist modernist Elio Vittorini’s novel Women of Messina.WORKERS, PEASANTSJean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 123 min | 2000
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