The Dryden will screen Le livre d'Image (The Image Book, Jean-Luc Godard, France/Switzerland 2018, 84 min., DCP, French, Arabic, Italian, and German w/subtitles).

Jean-Luc Godard adds to his influential, iconoclastic legacy with this provocative collage film essay, a vast ontological inquiry into the history of the moving image and a commentary on the contemporary world. Winner of the first Special Palme d'Or to be awarded in the history of the Cannes Film Festival, The Image Book is another extraordinary addition to the French master's vast filmography. Godard pieces together fragments and clips from some of the greatest films of the past, then digitally alters, bleaches, and washes them, all in the service of reflecting on what he sees in front of him and what he makes of the dissonance that surrounds him. But, as always with Godard, the key issues he raises have to do with the legacy of the last century and its horrors.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2019-Jun-24]