Huillet and Straub have constantly questioned the possible transformation from one medium to the other, such as literature, painting, music towards film, as a process of re-reading, re-inventing or readjusting of meaning. If there is such a thing like a "Pédagogie straubienne" (as Serge Daney has hinted once) this studio follows the question: What can we learn from their films today? Is it possible to translate the rigor, their painstaking and scrupulous precision that seems so much connected and conditioned by the means of analog film production into what is usually conceived as the age of digital image production?

Studio 4 approaches the work of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub from a perspective of contemporary image production. Although almost exclusively tied to the analog mode of production the way the two filmmakers have worked could be considered as "open source" in the truest sense of the word. Rather than owning the images they have produced, their images try to own up to their sources or predecessors, and therefore they value their collaborators and potential audiences in the highest possible way.

Language English