Weekend
Jean-Luc Godard – The Spirit of the Forms
October 9 - 31, 2013
Presented in 35mm!
Godard’s savage critique of French bourgeois/consumer culture not only caught the mood of the moment but anticipated the events of May 1968 by almost a year.
Screening with: Camera Eye (Jean-Luc Godard, 11m) from Far From Vietnam
Godard’s farewell to commercial cinema begins as a savage critique of French bourgeois/consumer culture and ends in a state of pastoral calm, along the way incorporating Georges Bataille, Frantz Fanon, Emily Brontë, cannibalism, Mozart’s 18th piano sonata played in the middle of a farmyard and Lautréamont’s “Chants de Maldoror” reinvented as a revolutionary anthem with a beat. With this unforgiving, incendiary and wildly inventive film, Godard not only caught the mood of the moment but anticipated the events of May 1968 by almost a year. Weekend will be shown in a new 35mm print, courtesy of Janus Films.
Screening with:
Camera Eye (from Far From Vietnam)
Jean-Luc Godard | France | 1967 | 11m | DCP
Godard’s contribution to the S.L.O.N. collaborative film Far from Vietnam, a montage of images from North Vietnamese films, La Chinoise and a 35mm camera with the filmmaker himself behind it and Godard’s voiceover in search of a concrete answer to the question: how is it possible, as a French filmmaker, to help the North Vietnamese in their struggle? DCP Courtesy of Icarus Films.
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