Exhibition : sentiments, signes, passions. à propos du livre d'image (The Image Book) by Jean-Luc Godard
Visions du Réel, International Film Festival Nyon, presents sentiments, signes, passions. à propos du livre d'image, an all-new exhibition conceived with Jean-Luc Godard, from 12 June to 13 September 2020 at Château de Nyon (Nyon Castle).
The Image Book (2018) is the latest film by Jean-Luc Godard, the French-Swiss filmmaker living in Rolle (Switzerland) and related to the city of Nyon through his personal history. A monument of world cinema, the director has profoundly influenced and inspired the cinematic art with his unclassifiable and audacious style.
Introduced by five chapters—like the five fingers of the hand—which together form a sixth, The Image Book weaves together images borrowed from the memory of film. Like a cinematographical political poem, which Jean-Luc Godard inhabits and intersperses with his voice and sounds, texts and music, while he carves the extracts, superimposing, shifting, reframing the sequences and saturating the colours.
The exhibition, conceived with the filmmaker in a dialogue initiated two years ago, covers the cutting of the film in six parts. It fragments, and breaks down even further each part of the work, both in terms of sound and image, inserting space and time between those dimensions. The linear format of the film is disrupted; the association of the elements creates a new language, a personal experience for each spectator. The chapters of the film will thus be reinterpreted within several rooms in the Château de Nyon.
Following a similar concept as Jean-Luc Godard’s exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in 2006, this project takes root in an approach located within the heritage of Henri Langlois and his film museum, which mixed posters, models and drawings so as to give a physical form to the very idea of editing.
Exhibition produced by Visions du Réel and L’Atelier, presented in collaboration with the Château de Nyon. With the support of Canton de Vaud, Ville de Nyon, Région de Nyon and the Fondation Jan Michalski.
Creation : Jean-Luc Godard
Conception and Implementation : Fabrice Aragno
Coordination : Mathieu Rohrer
Proposed by Visions du Réel, Emilie Bujès
Practical information
Château de Nyon (Nyon Castle)
Exhibition open from 12 June until 13 September 2020, every day except Monday, from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
www.chateaudenyon.ch
www.visionsdureel.ch
29.05.2020 | Editor's blog
Cat. : FILM