Moses and Aaron

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Devos, Louis, actor. .

Huillet, Danièle, director, producer, editor. .

Reich, Günter, actor. .

Straub, Jean-Marie, director, producer, editor. .

Grasshopper Film (Firm), publisher, film distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aaron (Biblical leader)--Drama.

Aaron.

Moses (Biblical leader)--Drama.

Moses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (105 min.)

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film 1974

Summary:

One of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's major films, MOSES AND AARON finds the filmmaking duo, through their exemplary craft, transforming a familiar Biblical tale into a borderline-surreal cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. Based on rigorous consideration and questioning of Biblical and archaeological history, particularly with respect to the collective memory passed down and transcribed over hundreds of years, however inaccurately of the Egyptian enslavement of the Hebrews and the Exodus, the film is concerned with the myth of human progress, and the transition from polytheism to monotheism. Set almost entirely within a Roman amphitheater whose history lends every precise line-reading and gesture, every startling camera move and cut, a totalizing force, Straub-Huillet's adaptation of Schoenberg's unfinished opera opens us to the stimulating worldview of a filmmaking duo whose masterful efforts are finally coming to light. *"The stark images are as passionated and engaging, profound and beautiful as the complex music to which they insightfully respond." - Richard Brody, **The New Yorker***

Participant:

Günter Reich, Louis Devos.

Notes:

Title is part of the Projectr EDU collection

Description based on online resource; title from title screen

OCLC:

1143280400

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license