Markus Nechleba
academic
Germany
Voted for
| Film | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| A Corner in Wheat | 1909 | D.W. Griffith |
| La Règle du jeu | 1939 | Jean Renoir |
| Roma città aperta | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini |
| A Diary for Timothy | 1946 | Humphrey Jennings |
| Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray |
| Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht | 1965 | Jean-Marie Straub |
| Shoah | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann |
| D'EST | 1993 | Chantal Akerman |
| Histoire(s) du Cinéma | 1988 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| West of the Tracks | 2002 | Wang Bing |
Comments
G. Deleuze: “I believe that at the basis of art, there is this idea or this very strong feeling of ‘shame of being a man‘ that results in art consisting of liberating the life that men have imprisoned. … The artist is the one who liberates a life, a powerful life, a life that’s more than personal, it’s not his/her life.” (In: L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze, Theme “Résistance”; the quote - “shame of being a man” - is by Primo Levi).
Although the truth made apparent by these films is devastating, hurting and seemingly unreasonable, these films eventually let arouse something more than hope: faith – in possibilities, in the act … of resistance.
(And of course that’s not just because of the stories they tell, but, as Brecht/Godard would say, because of how the (Hi)story is told.)
Films in chronological order.