Tenth session of the film programme Jean-Luc Godard, with the screening of Godard's "Hail Sarajevo" (1993), "Our Music" (2004) and "Ecce Homo / Excès Oh Mot!" (2008).

JE VOUS SALUE SARAJEVO | HAIL SARAJEVO

Jean-Luc Godard | FRA | 1993 | 2'

Godard tackles the Balkan war in the early 1990s through a single photograph by Ron Haviv and Luc Delahaye. By decoupaging the elements of the photograph (two soldiers, gun in hand, cigarette in hand, rifle pointed at a woman's head), Godard's angry lament is also a broader comment on culture and nationalism. And it is once again through his voice that this warning is uttered: “Culture is the rule. Art is the exception. Everyone speaks the rule: cigarettes, computers, sweaters, television, tourism, war. Nobody speaks the exception. It's not spoken, it's written: Flaubert, Dostoyevsky. It's composed: Gershwin, Mozart. It's painted: Cézanne, Vermeer. It's filmed: Antonioni, Vigo. Or it's lived, and becomes the art of living: Srebenica, Mostar, Sarajevo. (...) When it's time to close the book, I'll have no regrets. I've seen so many live so badly, and so many die so well.”

NOTRE MUSIQUE | OUR MUSIC

Jean-Luc Godard | FRA, SUI | 2004 | 80'

Our Music has a tripartite organisation, corresponding to Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.

HELL: images of war: aeroplanes, tanks, battles, explosions, gunfire, executions, devastated countries, destroyed villages. All in black and white and colour. Silent images, four sentences, four pieces of music.

PURGATORY. Sarajevo today, martyred like so many others. Real and imaginary characters. A visit to the Mostar Bridge, which is being rebuilt and symbolises the passage from guilt to forgiveness.

PARADISE. A young woman - whom we saw in Purgatory - sacrifices herself, finds peace in the water, on a small beach guarded by US Marines. (press release)

ECCE HOMO / EXCÈS OH MOT!

Jean-Luc Godard | FRA | 2008 | 2'

A short essay in visual dialectics on the iconography of executioners and victims, which seems to be either a leftover or an excrescence of The Old Place. Small Notes Regarding the Arts at Fall of 20th Century (1998), a documentary by Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville about and for a museum, the MoMA in New York, or even the History(s) of Cinema. (Nicole Brenez).