Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle (2010)
In the summer of 1986, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub were working in the park of an old Sicilian mansion and in a clearing at the foot of Mount Etna shooting Der Tod des Empedokles. Assistant cameraman Jean-Paul Toraille toyed around, so to speak, with his first video camera, filming the daily work on the set. Now, 24 years later, he was joined by Jean-Marie Straub in editing the material into a film. Anyone who expected the shooting of Les Avatars de la mort d’Empédocle to be an austere affair, an exercise entirely devoid of humour or a Straubian tour de force is proven wrong: so much lightness, joy, concentration, spells of waiting for the sun to come out – and even proper slapstick in between – is hard to find.
Featured Crew
| Jean-Paul Toraille | Producer |
| Jean-Paul Toraille | Editor |
| Jean-Paul Toraille | Director |
| Jean-Paul Toraille | Sound Recordist |
| Catherine Quesemand | Editor |
| Jean-Paul Toraille | Camera Operator |
