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14 - 22 December 2024
Jean-Luc Godard: Scénario(s)
To accompany the special exhibition of Jean-Luc Godard's Scénario(s), the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is delighted to present this curated programme of works by Godard, spanning six decades, further contextualising his legacy in both film and visual arts.
Throughout Godard's astonishingly vast and dense body of work, one is constantly confronted with reinventions and reformulations, both of Godard's own practice and, in the process, the very medium itself.
From the technicolor joy of an early nouvelle vague classic like Une femme est une femme to the deconstructed 'return to zero' of Le gai savoir just eight years later. From defining explorations of audio-visual communication and digital technologies in the mid 1970s to captivating commentaries on the relationship between film, television and video in the mid 1980s. From the verdant imagery and literary density of Nouvelle vague to a monumental treatise on a medium and a century in Histoire(s) du cinéma. From the clash of charcoal sketched 35mm and fauvist digital colour in Éloge de l'amour to the restless collage of image and sound in The Image Book.
This programme attempts to trace an appropriately fragmented journey through Godard's vast body of work and its myriad histories and stories, offering an opportunity to revisit those works that have long been venerated and to discover, or reconsider, those that have been unduly overlooked.
Jean-Luc Godard: Scénario(s)
To accompany the special exhibition of Jean-Luc Godard's Scénario(s), the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is delighted to present this curated programme of works by Godard, spanning six decades, further contextualising his legacy in both film and visual arts.
Throughout Godard's astonishingly vast and dense body of work, one is constantly confronted with reinventions and reformulations, both of Godard's own practice and, in the process, the very medium itself.
From the technicolor joy of an early nouvelle vague classic like Une femme est une femme to the deconstructed 'return to zero' of Le gai savoir just eight years later. From defining explorations of audio-visual communication and digital technologies in the mid 1970s to captivating commentaries on the relationship between film, television and video in the mid 1980s. From the verdant imagery and literary density of Nouvelle vague to a monumental treatise on a medium and a century in Histoire(s) du cinéma. From the clash of charcoal sketched 35mm and fauvist digital colour in Éloge de l'amour to the restless collage of image and sound in The Image Book.
This programme attempts to trace an appropriately fragmented journey through Godard's vast body of work and its myriad histories and stories, offering an opportunity to revisit those works that have long been venerated and to discover, or reconsider, those that have been unduly overlooked.
Programme
Saturday 14 December, 4pm
The Image Book + Q&A
Winner of the Cannes Special Palme d’Or, Jean-Luc Godard's final feature film is a bracing, beautiful and confrontational essay film interrogating our relationship with film, culture and global politics.
Sunday 15 December, 2pm
Une femme est une femme
Godard's 'neorealist musical' is a delightfully playful comedy centred upon a burlesque dancer (Anna Karina) who wants to have a baby but finds herself rebuffed by her lover (Jean-Claude Brialy).
Sunday 15 December, 4.15pm
Le gai savoir
In an abandoned television studio, two people embark on a series of late night dialogues in an attempt to develop an analysis of the relation between images and sounds, politics and film. Starring Juliet Berto and Jean-Pierre Leaud, Le gai savoir is in the words of the films characters and Godard himself an attempt to 'return to zero'.
Tuesday 17 December, 8pm
Numéro deux + Comment ça va
This double bill brings together two of Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's most intriguing works from the 1970s. Marking the filmmakers first long-form experiment with video, Numéro deux is a raw exploration of French family life in the 1970s, while Comment ça va incisively investigates the nature of audio-visual communication.
Wednesday 18 December, 8.30pm
The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Godard's submission to television anthology Série Noire is a typically relexive, philosophic and freewheeling exploration of the always-precarious relationship between television, film, and video.
Thursday 19 December, 6.30pm
Nouvelle vague
Composed entirely from literary quotations taken from a myriad of texts, Nouvelle vague is a visually stunning and philosophically dense allegory, centred upon the shifting relationship between a drifter and an Italian countess.
Friday 20 December, 6.30pm
Éloge de l'amour (4K Restoration)
Shot in both black-and-white 35mm and fauvist digital colour, Godard began the new century with this densely layered exploration of love, resistance and betrayal.
Saturday 21 December, 2.30pm
Histoire(s) du cinéma, chapters 1 + 2
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 profoundly moving examination of the century it defined.
Sunday 22 December, 2.30pm
Histoire(s) du cinéma, chapters 3 + 4
In many ways both the beginning and the apotheosis of Godard's collage films, this sprawling essayistic voyage through the twentieth century serves as both a testament and indictment of the medium that defined it.
Saturday 14 December, 4pm
The Image Book + Q&A
Winner of the Cannes Special Palme d’Or, Jean-Luc Godard's final feature film is a bracing, beautiful and confrontational essay film interrogating our relationship with film, culture and global politics.
Sunday 15 December, 2pm
Une femme est une femme
Godard's 'neorealist musical' is a delightfully playful comedy centred upon a burlesque dancer (Anna Karina) who wants to have a baby but finds herself rebuffed by her lover (Jean-Claude Brialy).
Sunday 15 December, 4.15pm
Le gai savoir
In an abandoned television studio, two people embark on a series of late night dialogues in an attempt to develop an analysis of the relation between images and sounds, politics and film. Starring Juliet Berto and Jean-Pierre Leaud, Le gai savoir is in the words of the films characters and Godard himself an attempt to 'return to zero'.
Tuesday 17 December, 8pm
Numéro deux + Comment ça va
This double bill brings together two of Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's most intriguing works from the 1970s. Marking the filmmakers first long-form experiment with video, Numéro deux is a raw exploration of French family life in the 1970s, while Comment ça va incisively investigates the nature of audio-visual communication.
Wednesday 18 December, 8.30pm
The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Godard's submission to television anthology Série Noire is a typically relexive, philosophic and freewheeling exploration of the always-precarious relationship between television, film, and video.
Thursday 19 December, 6.30pm
Nouvelle vague
Composed entirely from literary quotations taken from a myriad of texts, Nouvelle vague is a visually stunning and philosophically dense allegory, centred upon the shifting relationship between a drifter and an Italian countess.
Friday 20 December, 6.30pm
Éloge de l'amour (4K Restoration)
Shot in both black-and-white 35mm and fauvist digital colour, Godard began the new century with this densely layered exploration of love, resistance and betrayal.
Saturday 21 December, 2.30pm
Histoire(s) du cinéma, chapters 1 + 2
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 profoundly moving examination of the century it defined.
Sunday 22 December, 2.30pm
Histoire(s) du cinéma, chapters 3 + 4
In many ways both the beginning and the apotheosis of Godard's collage films, this sprawling essayistic voyage through the twentieth century serves as both a testament and indictment of the medium that defined it.
no. 236848.