Godard's History(ies) of Cinema (original) (raw)

The overload of words and images over the screen/ canvas of Godard's " Histoire(s) du cinema " ["History(ies) of Cinema " ] (1988-1998) opposes its aesthetic and intellectual power of history to this 'near the visible'. The documentary, in itself, consumed in its radicality this identity of the thinking, of the writing and of the visible that is the very knot of the aesthetic thinking and its historical capacity. Godard unifies the power of printing – the power of the word, born from the encounter of the mutism of the machine and the silence of the things – with the power of the editing, constructing a history and a sense for the right he arrogates to himself, which is loosely combining meanings, restraining or expanding his power of expression. And produces transformations of a machine of vision into a machine of writing. " H(s)ofC " is an epic poem, non linear, illuminated by the encyclopedic sagacity of Godard.