Les Avatars de la mort d'Empédocle

 

In the summer of 1986, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub were shooting Der Tod des Empedokles in the park of an old Sicilian mansion as well as on a clearing at the foot of Mount Etna. Assistant cameraman Jean-Paul Toraille toyed around, so to speak, with his first video camera as he filmed the daily work on the set. Now, 24 years later, he was asked by Jean-Marie Straub to edit the materia [...]

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53 min