Late Godard: Introduction
Everybody says that digital video allows you to do this or that, without even saying what was actually done. Digital video allows you to be free, but free to do…
An Imaginary Africa
Almost two minutes into Jean-Luc Godard’s Adieu au langage (Goodbye to Language , 2014), there is a low angle shot looking up at some bright sunflowers followed by a shot…
Film Socialisme & the Screenplay Poetics of Late Godard
To shift from a film (or screen) poetics to a screenplay poetics is to work in reverse. It is to privilege ‘the screen idea’ over the ‘screenwork’ – the version…
Godard’s Stereopticon
I Entry Points “What is going on? End of the world? Advent of another world?” The words are spoken by a middle-aged man sitting near a pier on Lake Geneva,…
Godard’s Stereoscopic Illusions: Against a Total Cinema
A woman and a man engage in a discussion on a bench and then they separate. We separate with them. One camera pans to the right where Ivitch is now…