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Histoire(s) du cinéma, dir. Jean-Luc Godard, France 1988-1998
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An eight-part video project, whose genesis can be traced both to the great Henri Langlois and a series of lectures Godard gave at Concordia University in 1978, Histoires(s) du cinéma, is both a monumental treatise on cinema as a medium, industry and art form and a remarkable examination of the century it defined.
In many ways both the beginning and the apotheosis of Godard's collage films, this sprawling essayistic voyage, made over the course of ten years, is both a relentlessly inventive, darkly humorous and profoundly moving testament to the medium of cinema and a searing indictment of its failings.
This screening includes the following chapters:
Chapter 1a - Toutes les histoires (All the (Hi)stories), 51 min
Chapter 1b - Une Histoire seule (A Single (Hi)story), 42 min
Chapter 2a - Seul le cinéma (Only cinema), 26 min
Chapter 2b - Fatale beauté (Deadly beauty), 28 min
In many ways both the beginning and the apotheosis of Godard's collage films, this sprawling essayistic voyage, made over the course of ten years, is both a relentlessly inventive, darkly humorous and profoundly moving testament to the medium of cinema and a searing indictment of its failings.
This screening includes the following chapters:
Chapter 1a - Toutes les histoires (All the (Hi)stories), 51 min
Chapter 1b - Une Histoire seule (A Single (Hi)story), 42 min
Chapter 2a - Seul le cinéma (Only cinema), 26 min
Chapter 2b - Fatale beauté (Deadly beauty), 28 min
*Please note there will be a 20 minute intermission between Chapters 1 and 2.
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02:30 pm
Sat, 04 Jan 2025
Cinema 1
Ticket information
- All tickets that do not require ID (full price, disabled, income support) can be printed at home or stored in email
- For aged-based concession tickets (under 25, student and pensioner) please bring relevant ID to collect at the front desk before the event.
Access information
Cinema 1
- Both our Cinemas have step free access from The Mall and are accessible by ramp
- We have 1 wheelchair allocated space with a seat for a companion
- All seats are hard back, have a crushed velvet feel and they do not recline
- These are our seat size dimensions: W 42 x D 45 x H 52
- Arm rest either side of the seat dimensions: L 27 x W 7 x H 20
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