Opening of the studios with an introduction to the project, its backgrounds and goals.

Huillet and Straub categorically refused to offer any kind of interpretation that might ease or facilitate access to the artwork or so-called original. Instead, their focus on the act of speaking, always in very specific circumstances, opens up a multitude of possible
interpretations; this marks precisely the peculiarity of their films. Through the speech-act the moving images change one of their most essential properties and they become no-one's property.

No-one's property is the opposite of what pretends to belong to everybody -- no matter whether it is communicated, participated in or otherwise shared. In this sense one can also understand the remarks that Gilles Deleuze repeatedly put forth in his books on cinema: the films of the "Straubs" are made for a people who are missing. "A people" needs to be invoked rather than represented or addressed. "The people no longer
exist, or not yet...".

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