Ninth screening of the Jean-Luc Godard film programme, with the screening of Jean-Luc Godard's "Spot of the 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF" (2018) and "The Image Book" (2018).

SPOT OF THE JI.HLAVA IDFF

Jean-Luc Godard | SUI | 1'

Having been commissioned to be direct the official spot for the 22nd edition of the Czech festival Ji.hlava IDFF, this film demonstrates Godard's synthesis, condensing into a single minute a whole series of issues that mark cinema and the moving images today: an entropy of images and sounds, digital and disconnected, that can be re-signified by the hand and through a digital swipe. From a reworking of the classical notions of editing to the pen-camera, Godard reorients all these assumptions through his phone, in an unusual 21st century 'image book'.

LE LIVRE D'IMAGE | THE IMAGE BOOK

Jean-Luc Godard | SUI, FRA | 88'

Committed to an increasingly demanding and experimental essayistic approach, The Image Book continues Jean-Luc Godard's poetic investigations into the nature of the image and its relationship with History. The Image Book is especially dedicated to the Arab world in the aftermath of the uprisings that took place in the Middle East, reviving Godard's relationship with this geography, which was established since he visited the occupied West Bank at the end of the 60s. As critic Richard Brody wrote in The New Yorker: “The very title of The Image Book embodies the paradox of his career. The complexity of the novel has always stood as an ideal for Godard; the overlapping voices on soundtracks, the density of action, the mercurial allusiveness, the diversity and disjunction of tones and moods have all made Godard’s films closer, in complexity and density, to novels than to any films by his peers.”