Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of his 1982 film Passion. “I didn’t want to write the script,” he states, “I wanted to see it.” Positioning himself in a video editing suite in front of a white film screen that evokes for him the “famous blank page of Mallarmé,” Godard uses video as a sketchbook with which to reconceive the film. The result is a philosophical, often humorous rumination on the desire and labor that inform the conceptual and image making process of the cinema.
Directed byJean-Luc Godard
JLG FilmsFeaturing

Jean-Luc Godard
Narrator / Self

Anne-Marie Miéville
Self
Pierre Binggeli
Self
Jean-Bernard Menoud
Self

Isabelle Huppert
Self

Michel Piccoli
Self

Hanna Schygulla
Self

Jerzy Radziwiłowicz
Self



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