Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux (2014)
- Original title
- Khan Khanne, sélection naturelle
- Directed by
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Genre
- documentary
- Country
- France, Switzerland
- Runtime
- 9 min
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Jean-Luc Godard sends a video letter to two Cannes Film Festival leaders explaining why he will not attend the premiere of his film. He narrates his current artistic state of mind and features clips from his own movies, quotes from writers, and photos of fellow directors.
self-reflexiveconfessionalpoeticmeditativeinformalallusiveintimatewistfuldisjointed
What happens
Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux (French: Lettre filmée de Jean-Luc Godard à Gilles Jacob et Thierry Frémaux; a.k.a. Khan Khanne) is a 2014 short film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It was made as a personal video letter to retiring festival president Gilles Jacob and artistic director Thierry Frémaux, explaining Godard's absence from the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of his feature film Goodbye to Language. Jacob later released the film on the internet. In the film, Godard's narration explains his personal state of mind as an artist and the current "path" that he is on. It includes footage from Godard's films Germany Year 90 Nine Zero and King Lear, quotes by Jacques Prévert and Hannah Arendt, and black and white still photos of Jacques Rivette and François Truffaut, as Godard references the autumn and says that he is going "where the wind blows me." In King Lear, Godard filmed a similar scene that included black and white still photos of film directors like Rivette and Truffaut, but Godard mocked the then-recently deceased Truffaut in that film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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