Every Man for Himself

Every Man for Himself 1980

6.19

A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker.

1980

Godard's Passion

Godard's Passion 1982

5.80

While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.

1982

Here and Elsewhere

Here and Elsewhere 1976

6.40

Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a French family watching television at home. Originally shot by the Dziga Vertov Group as a film on Palestinian freedom fighters, Godard later reworked the material alongside Anne-Marie Miéville.

1976

Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'

Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie' 1979

1

Jean-Luc Godard proposes a diary of his creative process. Looking at photos of three actors, Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, and Miou-Miou, who were previously cast to play in "Sauve qui peut (la vie)," Godard speaks about great image makers: Dreyer and Wim Wenders, the painters Edward Hopper and Pierre Bonnard.

1979

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still 1974

7.20

The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was staged.

1974

Number Two

Number Two 1975

6.30

Jean-Luc Godard mixes video and film in his Grenoble studio, discussing how he secured funding for the film. The action unfolds on two monitors, as a young working-class couple lives in a claustrophobic, high-rise apartment complex and marital discord is set off by the wife’s infidelity.

1975

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children

France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children 1979

6.10

In this astonishing twelve-part project for and about television — the title of which refers to a 19th-century French primer Le tour de la France par deux enfants — Godard and Miéville take a detour through the everyday lives of two children in contemporary France.

1979

Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication

Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication 1976

8.70

The title and subtitle of this French miniseries are “Six Times Two; Over and under the media”. The “six” refers to the fact that there are six episodes; the “two” has a double meaning.

1976

How's It Going?

How's It Going? 1978

6.00

During the making of a video film about a communist printing press, a union member and a leftist activist discuss how to present their information, especially how to caption two specific images: one of a protest in Portugal, the other of a strike in France. One of them decides to write to his son, a manual worker living outside of Paris with his girlfriend, telling the young man about his troubles.

1978