Completed just before his assisted death, the French New Wave master director talks through his ideas as illustrated in his hand-drawn scrapbook

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    Here is an intriguing footnote to Jean-Luc Godard’s extraordinary career - a docu-textual movie collage lasting just under an hour in two parts, or maybe two layers, completed just before his assisted death two years ago in Switzerland at the age of 91.

    Scénarios appears to have grown out of thoughts generated by his last film, The Image Book, which emerged in 2018.

    Godard sketched out his storyboarded or scrapbooked ideas for a short piece, which would juxtapose images, quotations, musical cues and clips in his distinctive manner.

    Aragno edited and curated the film from this blueprint, then came back to see Godard and to shoot a brief sequence of the director reciting a text from Sartre to go at the end.

    Scénario-slash-Scénarios perhaps echoes the title of his video project Histoire(s) du Cinéma: an acknowledgment of the plurality and proliferation of ideas.

    Here in Scénarios is his work-in-progress dynamic and though he is frail and elderly he doesn’t look ill. His research into the image was ongoing.


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