Courtisane is een platform voor film en audiovisuele kunsten. In de vorm van een jaarlijks festival, filmvertoningen, gesprekken en publicaties onderzoeken we de relaties tussen beeld en wereld, esthetiek en politiek, experiment en engagement.
Courtisane is a platform for film and audiovisual arts. Through a yearly festival, film screenings, talks and publications, we research the relations between image and world, aesthetics and politics, experiment and engagement.
An initiative of CINEMATEK and Courtisane, in collaboration with Le Service de Culture cinématographique (SCC).
On the occasion of this program, Courtisane, Sabzian and Cinematek have collected a series of writings and interviews in a small-edition publication (French/English).
A trade unionist shows a leftist (played by Anne-Marie Miéville) a film that he made about the work inside his factory. She is dissatisfied with the result and urges him to think about each of his choices. “Through her, Godard develops a critical dispositif in which the issue of representation of the working class is closely intertwined with that of production and circulation of information in society. Neither a neutral statement nor a gratuitous denunciation of the media, Comment ça va? is a dynamic film that bears witness to a juncture ‘between the active and the passive’ and which clearly chooses a side: that of reflection and montage as the politics of the gaze”. (Olivier Joyard)
French spoken