Nicole Brenez dedicated these last few years to working with the late Jean-Luc Godard. Researcher, teacher and programmer, she’s confirming an abundant amount of films Godard left before his assisted suicide.
We know that the 20-minute “Funny Wars” will most likely be at Cannes in May. But Brenez is telling Critikat that we could look forward to others in the near future.
"I can tell you that [FUNNY WARS] will not be his last film. Before leaving, Jean-Luc planned, directed and supervised several others. Fabrice Aragno and Jean-Paul Battaggia are hard at work to complete them. We’ll be seeing a lot of cinematic treasures he left us with, very diverse films.
We know that prior to his death in early fall, Godard was working on two films: “Scénario” and “Funny Wars.” In October, during her MoMA installation, Artist Mitra Farahani was slyly credited as the producer of “Scénario.”
Godard was a God of the medium, having advanced it more than any other person save for the Lumieres brothers or George Melies. He’s always strayed far away from conventional cinema and instead opted to make films in bold, original, and vital fashion.
All the details that we know about these final two JLG films come from Godard’s closest collaborator, cinematographer Fabrice Aragno.
According to Aragno, “Funny Wars” was shot on 35mm, 16mm, and Super 8—35mm shot black-and-white, the other two color—while “Scénario” appears “more in a classic video style with some Super-8 images, not with 35mm.”
Now it looks like Bradford Young — who took a sabbatical from movies these last seven or eight years — has attached to the project as DP. This is a welcome surprise.