Editing film: directors looking at strips of celluloid
☛ artnet: Jean-Luc Godard photographed by Philippe R. Doumic, circa 1960. Gelatin silver print, 18 x 13 cm. (7.1 x 5.1 in.). Large format retrieved from falter.at. © Unifrance Films. The photo was likely taken during or just after the production of À bout de souffle, which was released in France on March 17, 1960. […]
“The Gaze of Interruption”: on ‘Goodbye to Language’ by Jean-Luc Godard
A 3200-word essay I wrote on Jean-Luc Godard’s 3-D film Adieu au langage (Goodbye to Language) has been published at Berfrois: see “The Gaze of Interruption”. I discovered Berfrois a couple of years ago through a review of Michel Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir written by Stuart Elden. Berfrois is a well-established “literary-intellectual […]
“What We Leave Behind – Jean-Luc Godard Archives”, Stephan Crasneanscki, 2014
☛ Paris Photo 2014: What We Leave Behind – Jean-Luc Godard Archives, “Study 7”, chromogenic color print by Stephan Crasneanscki. Images retrieved from L’Oeil de la Photographie. The manuscript text in the photo is Godard’s reworking of an excerpt –glued bellow– from Jean Anouilh’s Antigone. Here, I reproduce a longer version of the excerpt, as […]
Jean-Luc Godard and the cinematographic emergency
I think they’ll be furious. They gave money for a film on and this is a film about. It hasn’t yet reached the surface. It’s still at the bottom of things. You and I are too old and cinema will die soon, very young, without giving everything it could. We must get quickly to the […]
