Description

On Godard: Conversations between Harun Farocki and Kaja Silverman is unlike any other volume ever published on the work of modernity's most prominent filmmaker. With a defiantly original spirit that shuns the familiar territories of biography or critical essay, Harun Farocki and Kaja Silverman approach Jean-Luc Godard's filmography through the structure of a grand conversation in which they thoroughly analyze eight of his most emblematic films, from Vivre sa vie to Nouvelle vague . Each chapter focuses on a single film, and each film is dissected sequence by sequence, shot by shot, culminating in a precise and logical reflection on the film, supported by its own formal deconstruction.

At times a Socratic dialogue in the darkness of the movie theater, and at times a transcript of a two-voice masterclass, the conversation between Silverman and Farocki articulates the former's feminist academic background with the latter's cinephile acuity as an avant-garde artist to compose a rigorous yet intuitive appreciation that functions as a true laboratory for interpretive experimentation. Is this a book of theoretical or practical film? Is it a Marxist, psychoanalytic, or semiotic text? How true is it that these conversations should be read, as some have suggested, as love letters? Is it worth knowing, in this sense, that the authors were a couple while writing these dialogues? The most important question posed by Farocki and Silverman, however, is much simpler: why return to Godard's cinema after so much time and with such lavish detail? Sustained throughout the pages of this book, the answer emerges again and again as the conviction that in every questioning of past art lies the path to new and luminous questions.

Authors
Harun Farocki
Kaja Silverman

Technical specifications
Published by: Black Box
Year: 2016
Type: Book
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 20 x 14 cm
Weight: 310 gr
Spanish
Pages: 316
ISBN: 978-987-1622-46-7