Seeing is not enough. A three-part tribute to Huillet-Straub

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  • Natalia Ruiz Martínez Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Barbara Ulrich Straub
  • Santos Zunzunegui

Abstract

The three-voice pages that make up this tribute were born of a coincidence: a) the appearance in April 2024 of a book that offered Spanish-language readers a volume that, like a toolbox, sought to facilitate access to one of the most coherent, audacious and dense works ever produced in the field of cinema: b) the lecture given by the filmmaker’s companion who, just a month before, came to shed light on where the initial impulse lies from which Straub-Huillet’s cinema has sprung, as part of a culture that contributes to making the common life of men possible, that is a worthy response to what the young philosopher (Karl Marx) called the ‘inorganic body of man’, that which we call nature and on whose survival depends our survival as a species. The texts thus assembled allude both to a long-term global work and to small (large) formative motifs that serve as triggers for a cinema that seeks ‘neither to console, nor to sanctify, but only to propose’, to paraphrase Wallace Stevens.

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Author Biographies

Natalia Ruiz Martínez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Natalia Ruiz is an art historian specialized in Film History and Image Aesthetics. Her doctoral thesis was about Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma , a work of which she was also a translator, and on which she published the book En busca del cine perdido . Her work as a specialized translator includes others of Godard’s films, several books on cinema, as well as a long collaboration with Caimán Cuadernos de Cine . After developing a postdoctoral project on the relations between cinema and museum, she published the text “De la naturaleza y el museo” about the films Cézanne by Straub-Huillet. She has extensive experience in museum didactic and cultural mediation. She is currently an associate professor of History of Thought and Aesthetic Ideas at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Barbara Ulrich Straub

Barbara Ulrich Straub, born in 1960 in Switzerland, has a PhD in Philosophy. A close friend of the Straubs since 1987, she became Jean-Marie Straub’s companion after the death of Danièle Huillet. Given the circumstances, she gradually became involved in the production and distribution of the films and, with her team at BELVA Film, undertook the digitisation of the work in order to make it available in its entirety. A complete DVD/BR/book edition is planned, as well as a VOD site. Full details will be available at www.straub-huillet.com.

Santos Zunzunegui

Santos Zunzunegui, MA degree in Economics from the University of Deusto and PhD in Communication from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), is Professor Emeritus of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the latter institution. He has been a visiting professor at various European and American universities (Caracas, Buenos Aires, Utah, Geneva, Siena, Paris III and l’École Normale Supérieure, among others). He has contributed to several specialised magazines (La Mirada, Contracampo, Zer, Caimán. Cuadernos de cine) and has published extensively on semiotics, image theory, museum studies, film theory and history and Spanish cinema. Among his recent publications, Metamorfosi dello sguardo (2011), Lo viejo y lo nuevo (2012), Bajo el signo de la melancolía (2017) and Ver para creer (2019).

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Published

2024-12-20

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Ruiz Martínez, N., Ulrich Straub, B., & Zunzunegui, S. (2024). Seeing is not enough. A three-part tribute to Huillet-Straub. EU-topías. A Journal on Interculturality, Communication, and European Studies, 28. Retrieved from https://turia.uv.es/index.php/eutopias/article/view/30102
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Vol. 28 (2024)

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WIDE ANGLE

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