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Jean Luc Godard Interview ( from Canon Europe)
  • Jean Luc Godard on shooting with small cameras and no crew, and other topics:

    Canon Europe recently conducted a 45 minute interview with Jean-Luc Godard on Goodbye to Language and the resulting conversation is pretty incredible. One could parse through the exchange for hours, but it’s best to watch for yourself and hear Godard on the everything from the melancholic underpinnings of “SMS,” the boundary-less nature of 3D, the fickle ways of language (“montage” vs. “editing”) and exploiting spatial imbalances (the creation of reverse shots). The interview also features a few short clips from Goodbye to Language and the following comment on its title: “When I say ‘farewell’ to language, it really means ‘farewell,’ meaning to say goodbye to my own way of speaking.”

    In part two, included below, Godard speaks about his career origins and discovery of the cinematheque, which he describes as “another way of speaking.”.

    from Filmmaker Magazine

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  • @jleo much appretiatted for this interview, really needed to hear such a semiotic joker, coherent and conscious free thinker and always explorer of the medium... as Great JL Godard +)

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  • with some cinematographers defining themselves by the equipment they use…this excludes gh2 and kodak film users…it's good to see Godard…taking chances and not sticking to the usual

  • @jleo Really interesting, thanks a lot!