JLG/JLG - Autoportrait de décembre

A literal self-portrait - the subject of interest, which is the author, is captured by himself, thus becoming the subject of his own artistic process. Similarly, Godard, although he makes a film about himself, uses the style of his feature films to explore "himself." It is written in quotation marks, because Godard perceives himself more as a foreign (marketing, detached from the history of film, etc.) abbreviation, the depersonalized JLG, rather than a subject for a purely personal hour-long autobiographical documentary (this is not to say that there is a complete absence of a certain narcissism, which is similar to his own works). Nevertheless, Godard's persona, together with his work as a unique personality, becomes a general space in which the power of artistic work and the cinematic image (in Godard's conception) are shown. The author is a certain fading focal point of creative work; he creates a work that always eludes him; he imbues a unique meaning, which, after being expressed/filmed, it turns the generality of spoken words into a foreign one; he brings together words that are and are not his own. (Moments of narcissism in the film are associated with a part of the unique creative contribution, while moments of typical Godardian self-irony are when he reflects on the author's secondary nature). These thoughts are especially important for an author who bases his work on citing other works and whose theory of the cinematic image relies equally on the imagination of something as foreign as the viewer. (2015.08.18)