The image book [blu-ray] = Le livre d'image / Caza Azul Films and Ecran Noir Productions presents ; director, writer, editor, subtitles, Jean-Luc Godard ; producer and cinematographer, Fabrice Aragno ; producer, Mitra Farahani ; in association with Hamidreza Pejman ; in association with Georges Schoucair.
Format:
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Publisher:
Kino Lorber,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm)
Container of (work): Livre d'image (Motion picture)
Notes:
Title from title screens; statement of responsibility from container. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2018. Jean-Luc Godard, narrator. Wide screen (1.78:1). Special features: interview with producer and DP Fabrice Aragno; trailers; booklet essay by James Quandt, programmer for the TIFF Cinematheque; conversation with researcher/critic Nicole Brenez at the 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam (94 min.).
Summary:
The legendary Jean-Luc Godard adds to his influential, iconoclastic legacy with this provocative collage film essay, a vast ontological inquiry into the history of the moving image and a commentary on the contemporary world. Displaying an encyclopedic grasp of cinema and its history, Godard pieces together fragments and clips them from some of the greatest films of the past, then digitally alters, bleaches, and washes them, all in the service of reflecting on what he sees in front of him.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.