PROPOSITION IN FOUR PARTS
A film by Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
1985, 41 minutes
1985, 41 minutes
No. 133
Documentary
Documentary
Description
D. W. Griffith’s 1909 short film A Corner in Wheat, a Biblical tale of avarice, divine retribution, and the prolonged suffering of the masses, is the prelude to this political film essay.
Straub-Huillet offer a dialectical montage of cause (capitalist greed) and effect (the poverty of the farmer and the urban underclass), and draw from excerpts of their earlier work: Moses and Aaron, Fortini/Cani, and From the Cloud to the Resistance.
Straub-Huillet offer a dialectical montage of cause (capitalist greed) and effect (the poverty of the farmer and the urban underclass), and draw from excerpts of their earlier work: Moses and Aaron, Fortini/Cani, and From the Cloud to the Resistance.
