Shortfilms

UNE CATASTROPHE - DER VIENNALE-08-TRAILER

Jean-Luc Godard
FRA 2008
1 min
V'08

In order to visualize how history functions and why mankind, talented to beauty, so willingly works on its own (not at all beautiful) abolition, we just briefly have to change perspectives. And that is Jean-Luc Godard's trick: he cannot separate politics from art, as he sees the one reflected in the other. He demonstrates how Howard Hawks is connected with Marx, and the Shoah with Bach. In this sense, Une catastrophe, Godard's trailer for the VIENNALE 2008, is extremely complex and at the same time completely serene, as if it had all the time in the world: Following in the tradition of Godard's opus magnum, Histoire(s) du cinéma, the art and film-historical mini assemblage takes us from a dramatic moment in Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) and garish-colored video war images to an extended kissing scene, played in super slow motion, from the famous Berlin romance Menschen am Sonntag (1929). On the same note: the groaning of female tennis players serving or returning balls, a Low German love poem («Dat du min Leevsten büst») and the beginning of Robert Schumann's piano cycle «Scenes from Childhood». Une catastrophe has an air of resignation but is not entirely without hope: From a perspective of war, love can be reached via a detour of art in 63 seconds. (Stefan Grissemann)

Credits
  • Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard im Auftrag der VIENNALE Siebensterngasse 2 1070 Wien T 1 526 59 47 office@viennale.at

Sixpackfilm Neubaugasse 45/13 1070 Wien T 1 526 09 90 0 office@sixpackfilm.com

VIENNALE Siebensterngasse 2 1070 Wien T 1 526 59 47 office@viennale.at
35 mm
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