Vertigo Magazine, 30: Godard Is (2012)

“An image of the Virgin and her baby on a donkey doesn’t cause a war; its interpretation by a text is what will lead to war and cause Luther’s soldiers to go and deface Raphael canvases. I have a strong feeling that the image enables us to talk less and say more.” – Jean-Luc Godard

“There are very few important books written about film or cinema. Maybe one should only read Bresson’s Notes on the Cinematographer, Ramuz’s novels or even Giacometti’s writings to understand what cinema is. Everything else is better written, or thought of in philosophy, poetry and literature. So why more writings on film? To incite, by any means, the desire to see these films which otherwise would be lost in the cultural wasteland we are crossing.

[..] Vertigo Magazine takes inspiration from Godard’s oeuvre. Godard is one if not the most influential filmmaker to explore the role of the moving image within aesthetics, politics and history. His work represents in its most emblematic way the crossover between the poetical and the historical, cinema and the arts, which will also be at the core of our publication. A ‘double bind’, Guattari’s crayfish.” (from the Editorial)

Contributions by Frieda Grafe, David Brancaleone, Corin Depper, James Norton, Jürgen E. Müller, Duncan White, James S. Williams, Adrian Martin, Ágnes Pethő, Jerry White, Robert Barry, Roland-François Lack, Cyril Neyrat, Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Editor: Damien Sanville
Assistant Editor: Michael Garrad
Commissioning Editors: Julian Ross, Robert Chilcott
Publisher: Close-Up Film Centre, London, UK, Spring 2012

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