JLG/JLG, AUTOPORTRAIT DE DÉCEMBRE
Jean-Luc Godard
France, 1995, 62’
”JLG/JLG is a self-portrait, something that seems unthinkable to do in cinema, but cinema is made for thinking the unthinkable, so I devoted myself to it.” (JLG, 1995)
Godard as both author and subject – quite a programme. Commissioned by Gaumont for its centenary celebrations at MoMA in New York. With a small DV camera, Jean-Luc Godard shares his memories and private thoughts, composing a diary that reads like a funeral dirge. Snow on the shores of Lake Geneva, a photo of him as a child, the Yugoslav conflict and, of course, cinema, but also silence and thoughts. A film like a point the author would make about himself at a moment in his life and work, and about their place in the world.
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. It is a partnership between FIDMarseille, the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Alphabetville, Videodrome2 and the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel.