For Le Genou d'Artemide Jean-Marie Straub once again chose a dialogue by Cesare Pavese. And not just any dialogue, but one that tears open a painful, mystical abyss between love and the one left behind. The film is one single exhilaration and one sin...
A man lost his love. He decides to go out and find her in the night of Hong Kong, only to realize that it's not with her he's in love, but with the city itself....
"Pigan brinner!" ("Maid on fire!") is a "modern silent short", shot in black/white 35 mm with the hand cranked camera Pathé, from 1914, (actually the same camera used by D.o.P. Julius Jaenzon for "Phantom Carriage") telling the story of a Maid that s...