The book “Jean-Luc Godard, Permanent Revolutionary” by German author Bert Rebhandl, published by the Film Center of Serbia and Ultimatum will be presented on Wednesday, April 20th, at 1 pm, in the Hall of the Cultural Center of Belgrade.
Sasa Radojević, playwright, publicist, film director and screenwriter, and Nikola Cvetković, publisher and editor at the Ultimatum publishing house, will speak about the book at the promotion.
What sets this book apart from others is not only the perception of Godard’s complex creative personality from a German (distanced) perspective, but the writer’s method in which Godard’s biography is given through films. By connecting with films, the author traces the most important segments of Godard’s career, enriching them with little-known contexts in which these films were made.
We can ever know only a fraction of who a person really is, be they real or imaginary. This, of course, is even more true for an artist like Jean-Luc Godard, who in his long life has increasingly identified with his work – his personal experiences become increasingly irrelevant, while he, with over a hundred titles in his filmography, appears as a kind of world-wide cinema spirit.
Jean-Luc Godard is a figure on the border between biography and work, between history and writing history, between subjectivity and politics, between modern art and the digital age, a dominant figure in film, seen as a key to 20th and 21st century issues and themes.