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Liberty and Homeland (2002)
Directed by Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Luc Godard
“An almost ecstatic recounting by Jean-Luc Godard of the making of a painting by the apocryphal artist Aimé Pache.”
· 21m
The title of this twenty-minute video by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, “Freedom and Fatherland,” is the official slogan of the Canton de Vaud, in Switzerland, where the filmmakers live and grew up. To fulfill their commission from a Swiss cultural festival, they adapted a great Swiss novel, “Aimé Pache, Painter from the Vaud,” by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, from 1911 (about a local artist who goes to Paris for his education and then returns home) and extruded its autobiographical analogies to Godard’s own life and work. Using a choice set of clips from Godard’s films to coincide with events from the painter’s life, verbal references to modern times and to Godard’s own—Sartre, the late nineteen-sixties, the cinema—and images of the Swiss terrain, which plays a decisive role in the work of Pache, Godard, and Miéville (an important filmmaker in her own right), they produce the effect of mirrors within mirrors.
Cast
Jean-Pierre Gos
Crew
- Director
- Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Luc Godard
- Writer
- Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
- Editor
- Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Details
- Original title
- Liberté et Patrie
- Release date
- 2002-08-01
- Runtime
- 21m
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- Switzerland, France
- Production
- Vega Film, Périphéria