JEAN-LUC GODARD - POLITICAL WRITINGS ON CINEMA AND OTHER FILM ARTS, VOLUME 2

Jean-Luc Godard. Understanding why a shot begins and why it ends, What good is an image in the world. Understand that if a film can be produced is that it is already accepted by society, transforming production into transfer of funds from capital to labor and not the other way around. Transforming the visual trappings of commerce (trailers, clips, advertisements, corporate films) into manifestos for poetry. Strengthen the cinema as art, and not reduce this term to the infamous enterprise of quiet accumulation of surplus value that it has become. Being both the Rembrandt, the Cézanne and the Hans Haacke of his own discipline. Becoming the Homer of the Trojans, that is to say of the vanquished. Bringing cinema to what it could be. Dare to affirm all his life what he should be. Do everything that should not be done. With Jean-Luc Godard, the term "art" remains the common name for a new practice of creative insubordination.