UWL Professor speaks at Institut Francais on Jean-Luc Godard
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Professor Garin Dowd of the University of West London’s School of Film Media and Design (LSFMD) recently gave a guest lecture at the Ciné Lumière at the Institut Français in London as part of its Jean-Luc Godard: Perspectives season, entitled 'Godard's 1980s: Self-portraiture and Surrogacy'.
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With a career spanning over 60 years and some 140 films, Jean-Luc Godard, who died last year, was the epitome of French cinema. This season presents a critical perspective on different periods of his filmmaking, with talks by prominent scholars and Godard specialists helping to navigate this huge body of work and consider his influence on contemporary filmmakers, artists and fashion designers.
Professor Dowd said:
My talk examined the role of Godard's own screen appearances and the frequent use of proxies for the director in his films of the 1980s. It was also an enormous pleasure to introduce a rare 35mm screening of his quirky 1987 re-imagining of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’."
Members of LSFMD's Thinking the Image Research Group were also guests of the Institut Francais for the public screening. Formed in 2015, the Group is a forum of School staff and doctoral students devoted to research into theories and practices of the image in areas including photography, film, digital media culture and literature. It is convened by Professor Dowd and Dr Theresa Mikuriya, who run a seminar series and a reading group and has formed panels at internal and external conferences.
- The Godard season continues until Friday 21 March 2023. Find out more via the Institut français du Royaume-Uni website.
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