From A as Author to Z as Zero, Jean-Luc Godard in 26 punchlines

PrimerArticle reserved for subscribersInterviews, books, reviews… For a filmmaker who was wary of language, Godard spoke a lot, with a prophetic sense of the formula. ABC. “Learn to see, not to read!” he wrote. Me, I say that the cinema has a role, it is to see how one sees , said it also, saying by there that its role, it was to say it. Jean-Luc Godard played this role all his life: while professing a legendary distrust of language and its assignments, he spoke a lot, to critics, the press, television, other filmmakers, writers, students , to people. He also, seemingly nothing, wrote a lot, first on the screen of his films, then here, there and elsewhere. His art, by turns assassin or prophetic, of the great formula (“it’s not a fair image, it’s just an image”) and the short phrase (thanking, to the Caesars, “the professionals of the profession “) has remained as famous as his taste for quotation, avowed or untraceable – his main support for thinking with, against or from others. You just have to look at his countless interviews, collections of texts, film texts to collect handfuls of punchlines. In the form of an alphabet, among a thousand other possible ones through seven decades of public life in complete freedom of expression and printing, here are some that we could remember to remember that Godard’s work is also, if not above all, a thought.A as Author“Le droit …