Moments choisis des histoire(s) du cinéma - Jean-Luc Godard

For his Carte Blanche Ho Tzu Nyen chose: Moments choisis des histoire(s) du cinéma, a film that inspired him and his own work.
 

Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1999) was initially an 8-part film essay lasting 4.5 hours. Two years later, Jean-Luc Godard re-edited it into a standard length film, a sort of synthesis, a putting into perspective of, and conclusion to Histoire(s). But this film is not just a new montage of existing images from Histoire(s); it is a film “full of life,” in the filmmaker's words. What Godard reveals in these selected moments is the introspective value of his reflection, in action, on the image. He does not treat the history of cinema as a fixed chronological monument, but as an immemorial philosophical dream about the collective exchange of gazes and the private management of the traces and gaps in this history.