30 November 2016 / 5 – 11 December 2016
Broadway Cinematheque / Oi!

The Comment ça va ? D’après Godard project and programme draws on the eponymous 1978 film by Jean-Luc Godard (“How’s It Going?“) to showcase documentaries and informational films that demonstrate an ability to transcend time and capture the essence of truth and reality, not as a means to an end, but rather as tools and resources that forge a path, undertake a journey through a complex political landscape. All the works here are elaborated as virtual meta-essay on the communication process.

In Comment ça va ? (70’), a wide-ranging cultural implications movie, Jean-Luc Godard filmed an exchange between the editor of a communist and trade unionist newspaper and his colleague, a left-wing activist, as they put together a piece designed to show the processes involved in producing their daily paper. The film is about politics and the media, in which two workers in a newspaper plant attempt to make a film. Combining video and film, Comment ça va? is a dialectic on the dissemination and  the processing of information, a movie about the transmission of ideas by the major media.

The works that feature in the Comment ça va ? D’après Godard line-up put forth a certain number of hypotheses that simultaneously touch upon a cross-section of the various motifs inherent to contemporary art, the artistic process itself.

Talk – Broadway Cinematheque

Date: 30 November 2016

Time: 19:30 – 20:30
Address: 1/F Broadway Cinematheque, Prosperous Garden, 3 Public Square Street, Yaumatei, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Speaker: Pascale Cassagnau, Valery Grancher

Screening – Oi!

Date: 5 – 11 December 2016

Time: 10:00 – 20:00 (Closed on Monday 10:00 – 14:00)
Address: 12 Oil Street, North Point, Hong Kong

*Part of IAA’s Janus Cinematheque