(cover of issue 2 of ARC VOLTA where the article was published Ramon Herreros, notes scattered from a plane: The plane 73 of an Aron Moses, and the second part of the conversation with Straub / Huillet)
Throughout this week has been made in the CCCB of Barcelona, \u200b\u200borganized by Xcèntric in collaboration with the French Institute, days of meetings on film, literature, visual composition or political, from the films of Jean-Claude Rousseau, Jean-Marie Straub / Danièle Huillet, Paulino Viota and Peter Nestler. This made me remember the film Straub and even better the person and his wife Straub Danièle Huillet to which Ramon and I met in 1975 when he and Valentin Gomez made them at his home in Rome a very long interview published in the first two issues of Voltaic Arc, in the summer of 77 the first part, in the autumn of 77 the second. I met again in Locarno in 1984 where they did a new interview shorter. They remembered us, especially Ramon and his article on the plane 73 of Moses und Aron. I saw them several times since at various festivals and knew them by mutual friends to death of Danièle in October 2006. That was a bad year. Joaquin Jorda died in June and a few months after Danièle. Festival in Turin, where a major retrospective Jorda, friends of the couple staged a tribute to his memory. It was very exciting.
All this reminds me of a fact that never ceases to amaze me. Though it has been over thirty years, researchers found that when working in Spain's National Film Mercaders street names remain the reference for the new generations of critics and filmmakers more involved. New figures have emerged, of course (otherwise it would be terrible), but Straub, Garrel, Akerman, Eustache, Rivette, Godard ... are on the minds of the people more restless and his films continue to occupy space in journals and conferences such as this week, or on projects such as web "Straub International, promoted by the magazine Lumière. Continue to enjoy their pictures, knowing that we discovered when just beginning, is one of the satisfactions that gives growing up. It is a privilege to have met them personally and in memory at a time when they were young, broke the rules of most conventional film and nobody paid attention.
(when I speak in plural Ramon Herreros I mean, my husband, who was one of the first, if not the first to write of Straub in Spain)
(for those who are curious, I hang on the other web interview they did in 1984. Those who want to read the ARC VOLTA will be sought in a newspaper library. Someday, maybe, I dedicate it to copy your articles more interesting or throw me a scan to hang on network)
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