Two screenings followed by the presentation of the five Scénario(s) notebooks published by Le livre d’image in 2025, in the presence of Mitra Farahani, artist, director and producer, director of Le livre d’image. From this ultimate work, Scénario(s), an open work where project and realisation merge (‘The script,’ said Godard, ‘is written at the end’), five notebooks remain, five sketches for a film composed of images, paintings, drawings, photographs and quoted or invented texts. These notebooks are ‘paper films’: freed from the technical constraints of cinema, Godard conceived them through shifts, revisions and repetitions, as a counterpoint to the themes developed in his work.
SCÉNARIOS
Jean-Luc Godard
2024, France, Japan, 18’
‘Scenario’ is the name cinema has given to its way of telling stories. And it is the title Jean-Luc Godard chose to give to his final film, made literally the day before his voluntary death. This does not mean that he would not have completed it, but that in its very incompleteness it would be realised. However, Scénario, which will ultimately be written as Scénarios, is twofold: DNA, fundamental elements, and MRI, Odyssey. DNA is the biological signature, what constitutes a human subject in its singularity; and MRI, which refers to medical imaging and the distress of a weakened body, suggests the dissolution of the subject in a play of magnetic resonances. Between these two poles, which evoke genesis and decline in a strictly materialistic way, unfolds the story of a subject, a story made up of notes and images intertwined and condensed into 18 minutes, a singular and collective narrative, the story of a life haunted by death, for the film is also a farewell, a funeral lament.
EXPOSÉ DU FILM ANNONCE DU FILM SCÉNARIO
Jean-Luc Godard
2024, France, Japan, 36’
In October 2021, Jean-Luc Godard presented his project for Scénario, a six-part film combining still images and moving images, halfway between reading and viewing.
Godard, au contraire is the name of a travelling research and programming project on the legacy of Jean-Luc Godard and the future of his cinema. A partnership between FIDMarseille, the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Alphabetville, Videodrome2 and the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel.
Special screening organised by Alphabetville and the Institut de l’Image.