Jean-Luc Godard’s Le livre d’image
THE IMAGE BOOK
Wednesday, March 27 at 7:30 pm
$11 Members | $16 Public
Post Film discussion with Royal Brown, Professor and Chair of the
Film Studies Program at Queens College, and editor of Focus on Godard
The legendary Jean-Luc Godard won a special Palme d’Or at Cannes for this daring film essay, an inquiry into the history of the moving image and a commentary on the contemporary world
The legendary Jean-Luc Godard adds to his legacy with this daring collagist film essay, an inquiry into the history of the moving image and a commentary on the contemporary world. The film is composed of fragments and clips from classic films which Godard digitally alters, bleaches, and washes, creating juxtapositions and connections between the images and the world around him. Moving from film history to the horrors of Hiroshima and Auschwitz to contemporary questions about orientalism and the Arab world, the film reckons with the power of images and their relationship to reality. Godard’s own voice guides us through associative musings on time, space, meaning, and violence, a commanding yet tenuous poet-narrator whose mortality lurks at the edge of every frame and cut.
(Director/Writer: Jean-Luc Godard, Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Dimitri Basil, Running Time: 1h 24m)
