ITALY, VIDEO, 4:3, COLOR/B&W, 41’
[Opening credits, red handwriting on white, in Italian]
– A proposition in four parts by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
[Titles preceding each section, in Italian]
– 1. A Corner in Wheat, D.W. Griffith, 1909
[14’, in its entirety, silent]
– 2. from Moses und Aron, Arnold Schoenberg, 1932, Straub-Huillet, 1974
– 3. from Fortini/Cani, Franco Fortini, 1967, Straub-Huillet, 1976
– 4. from Dalla nube alla resistenza, Cesare Pavese, 1948–50, Straub-Huillet, 1978
[End credits]
– Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, End 1985
Video montage, conceived and edited by Jean-Marie Straub for Enrico Ghezzi’s TV program La Magnifca ossessione, broadcast on RAI 3 over forty hours from December 25 to 26, 1985. It is also titled Montaggio in quattro movimenti per “La Magnifica ossessione” (in the program for the retrospective at the 2001 Turin Film Festival).