Wavelengths 3: Exposé(s) - Jean-Luc Godard/John Smith
Programme notes by Jesse Cumming.
Content advisory: violence
Playing as part of this programme:
Scénarios
The last completed film by the veteran Jean-Luc Godard, finalized the day before his assisted death in September 2022, Scénarios folds together many of his lifelong inquiries into a precise, sober treatise on art, cinema, language, and death.
Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario"
Conceptualized by Godard and shot by his trusted collaborator Fabrice Aragno, with Exposé du film annonce du film "Scénario" the maestro — cigar in hand — presents a guided tour of a scrapbook-meets-storyboard for a feature left unfinished.
Being John Smith
Being John Smith is a deceptively wry and deeply felt work by the English avant-garde legend, in which Smith reflects on his life and career by way of his generic name, grappling with his own mortality and legacy, through a minimal, unassuming deployment of text, image, and voice.