1970: Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorn made a tour of American universities – Harvard (from where I am writing these lines [sic.], Yale, and Berkeley, among others. […]. When Godard and Gorin made their tour, American campuses were ready to rise up. They called on students to offer their support to the Black Panther Party […]
“The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it.” Sure, the idiotic idea of your never-to-be-built-wall may have emerged, fully-formed, from your head, like some phantom Athena (the “Wall”). But this Wall remains a figment of your limited imagination no matter how many real-time revisions […]
Ever since I watched it, I have wanted to write about Jean-Luc Godard’s 2004 film Notre Musique. Set in Sarajevo, it tells the story of two women – Olga and Judith – and debates ideas of violence, ethics, colonialism, the Other and the Israeli-Palestine conflict. The main reason that I obsessed over the film was […]