Category Archive for: ‘Issue 41 – Late Godard Dossier’

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 what? [1] This special dossier comes after our Late Godard: Digital + 3D Cinema research symposium held 21-22 October 2015, at the University of Technology Sydney. This brought together scholarly …

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 of a summer sky, the clouds dusted pink and gold. A woman’s voice asks, “Sir, is it possible to produce a concept about Africa?” [1] In the middle of the …

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 of the screen idea distributed to the widest audience. These are the terms set out by Ian W. Macdonald who presents a model of screenwriting research which “allows us to …

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, as he leafs through a book of reproductions of the Franco-Russian artist Nicolas de Staël, after a sequence of shots that might well have engendered these very questions. A title …

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 engaged in a heated discussion with another man. One camera stays on Davidson to the left. One of our eyes moves to watch Ivitch. One of our eyes remains with …