Histoire(s) du Cinéma

Jean-Luc Godard

1988–98. Video. 266 min, Colour and B&W. French with English subtitles.

Histoire(s) du cinéma - a TV series/video essay - was made for Canal+, ARTE and Gaumont, from 1988 to 1998. The work subdivides into four chapters of two parts each.
An extended essay on cinema by means of cinema. A history of the cinema, and history interpreted by the cinema. A homage and a critique. An anecdotal autobiography, illuminated by Godard's encyclopaedic wit, extending the idiom established by Jean-Luc Godard par Jean-Luc Godard. An epic – and non-linear – poem. A freely associative essay.
A vast multi-layered musical composition. Histoire(s) du cinéma is all of these. It is above all, a work made by a man who loves and is fascinated by the world of film.

7pm
Part I :  147 min
1(a) : Toutes les histoires (1988), 51 min.
1(b) : Une Histoire seule (1989), 42 min.
2(a) : Seule le cinéma (1997), 26 min.
2(b)  : Fatale beauté (1997), 28 min.

Break : 20 min.

10:30pm
Part II :  119 min
3(a) : La Monnaie de l’absolu (1998), 27 min.
3(b) : Une Vague Nouvelle (1998), 27 min.
4(a) : Le Contrôle de l’univers (1998), 27 min.
4(b) : Les Signes parmi nous (1998), 38 min.

With the support of the Embassy of Switzerland in Beirut