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The Chamber Piece | In Conversation with Fabrice Aragno | MUBI

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After premiering THE IMAGE BOOK in Competition at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, we had a chance to sit down to discuss the film with one of Jean-Luc Godard's key collaborators: editor, cinematographer, and producer, Fabrice Aragno: https://mubi.io/307ySUO
Using recorded voices, including Godard’s slightly weathered, wheezing and distorted rasp, but dispensing entirely with narrative and actors, THE IMAGE BOOK is cinema as sampling. It’s Godard in the echo chamber, with a 1970s-era Lee Scratch Perry in the producer’s chair. Or its vintage-era The Fall, with Godard as Mark E Smith, randomly turning the amps up and fiddling with the monitors up just to get a reaction and fuck things up.  A fragmented and frequently self-referential collage of sounds and images that uses sequences from Godard’s own back catalogue alongside artworks, texts, novels and other frequently manipulated media images in which pleasure may be denied or curtailed (just as you fall under the spell of something it tends to be excised from the screen), it begins with a succession of images of hands and fingers, illustrating (or illustrated by) the spoken statement that “man’s true condition is to think with hands.”

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