Showing posts with label Michelson on Godard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michelson on Godard. Show all posts

Friday, March 13, 2020

Alphaville (1965)



Some notes from Michelson's "Film and the Radical Aspiration"(1966):

- "This film, shot entirely on location, is the film of Dis-location."

-"... a continual play with language transforms things known and seen."

-"... low-income housing developments of post-1945 Paris ... are the clinics and insane asylums of the future ..."

-"The city's peripheral avenues ... shift and expand into an irrevocably disquieting suggestion of the routes of interplanetary space."

-"Function and scale of object and place are continuously altered, as image and sound converge upon site ..."