Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at 7:30pm
Reading with Jean-Luc Godard
361 Stagg Street, Suite 407, Brooklyn
Reading with Jean-Luc Godard, edited by Timothy Barnard and Kevin J. Hayes, is a film book of a unique and fascinating sort. 50 authors across a dozen countries have contributed over 100 entries to an anthology about the manifold ways that books have shaped Godard's cinema. Each essay in the volume focuses on the filmmaker's relationship with a particular text, beginning with Henri Alleg's The Question and concluding with Virginia Woolf's The Waves. For our event at Light Industry, several of these will be read, each punctuated by a related Godard sequence:
Michael Cramer on Godard and Pasolini
Sam Ishii-Gonzales on Godard and Bergson
Anna Shechtman on Godard and Proust
Ethan Spigland on Godard and Baudelaire
Tamara Tasevska on Godard and Comics
The collection, writes Fredric Jameson in his preface, is akin to "an immense rhizome, the space of Godard's mind, inside which the various opinions, allusions, references and ideological slogans are positioned like so much furniture, which sometimes goes out of style and which you replace with something older or newer. Or like so many journals and old newspapers which pile up and serve as documentation or for clippings later on. Think of it as a cut-up book, à la Mallarmé or Burroughs, out of which you can fashion your own ideograms or ecletic images of thought. There are various different pictures of Godard here, hidden in the foliage like an Arcimboldo portrait, if you care to look for them."
Copies of Reading with Jean-Luc Godard will be available for purchase.
FREE
Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 7pm. No entry 10 minutes after start of show.