JLG / JLG
Jean Cocteau
landscape crossed,
given, and a country conquered,
Justice Fielding entered my chambers.
Let’s get to work.
Go from shot 6/4 to shot 6/5.
Jamais mort
la duree de l’eternite
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Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 1-19-05 (12:27 AM)
Written during my first viewing of what Jean-Luc Godard describes as
a "self-portrait in December", an hour-long filmic essay he wrote, directed
& produced in 1994, casting himself as the lead actor. I'm still thinking
about Philippe Sollers' incisive comment, "Of all Godard's films, I think
that JLG/JLG is the one that comes closest to the essential question: what
do we mean by thinking?"
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