The Image Book
(Le livre d'image)
Year: 2018
Country:
SWITZERLAND, FRANCE
Language:
English, French, Arabic, Italian
Run Time:
84 minutes
Our hands are capable of great works of art and beneficent inventions. They also are capable of crafting tools to commit atrocities and to destroy. And these same hands create the means of documenting these acts. This paradox lies at the heart of Jean-Luc Godard’s avant-garde cinematic poem/essay/polemic. With no featured actors and only Godard’s voice providing comment, THE IMAGE BOOK is a complex and unsettling assembly of film clips from classic world cinema, horrific news footage of war violence, and still images. Many are visually and aurally altered, forcing us to re-examine the familiar and consider it in the light of Godard’s narrative. It is a film that confronts its audience, forcing them to react in ways that conventional narrative may not. It is meant to disturb, to be an overwhelming audio-visual experience. Godard rejects the idea of a passive audience and has thrown down a gauntlet. Film lovers willing to take his challenge are in for a truly unique encounter with one of cinema’s most revered provocateurs. (In English, French, Arabic, Italian, and German with subtitles) —C.R.
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Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris, France. His film career has spanned nearly seven decades. More than half of Godard's 43 feature films had their American premieres at the New York Film Festival in Manhattan, and in October 2013 the Festival featured a comprehensive retrospective of his work. Godard was voted one of the greatest directors of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
Filmography
King Lear (1987), Le rapport Darty (1989), Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991), For Ever Mozart (1996), In Praise of Love (2001), Notre musique (2004), Goodbye to Language (2014), Bridges of Sarajevo (2014), THE IMAGE BOOK (2018)
Producers
Fabrice Aragno, Mitra Farahani
Cinematography
Fabrice Aragno
Editing
Jean-Luc Goadard
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