---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Temple <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:23 AM Subject: Please forward to your list: RECONSTRUCTION OF RARE GODARD FILM To: [log in to unmask] Dear all, I would like to draw your attention to this exceptional event at Birkbeck, London, on Friday 15 November. Regards, Michael Temple Inaugural Annual University of Pittsburgh/Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) Lecture Friday 15th November 5.30-9.00 Film Studies at the Department of English, University of Pittsburgh and the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image celebrate the inauguration of their collaboration with: Dr. Michael Witt (University of Roehampton): Lecture and UK premiere of Jean-Luc Godard’s Sauve la vie (qui peut). A Reconstruction (by Michael Witt) While delivering a series of talks in Rotterdam in 1980-1981, Godard created a ‘special edition’ of his 1980 film Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Every Man for Himself, aka Slow Motion), in which he interspersed five extracts from his own film with clips from four others: Eisenstein and Alexandrov’s The General Line (1929), Cline and Keaton’s Cops (1922), Visconti’s The Earth Trembles (1948), and Wajda’s Man of Marble (1977). He called this remarkable compilation film Sauve la vie (qui peut); it was shown once (during the Rotterdam Film Festival 1981), and has subsequently been almost completely forgotten. Michael Witt has produced a digital reconstruction of Sauve la vie (qui peut) drawing on archival research, including examination of the original reels of film that Godard used. The lecture and screening will be followed by a reception to launch Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian (Indiana University Press), Michael Witt’s study of Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma within the context of his overall œuvre (http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/807014). Copies of the book at 30% discount will be available. The event will take place in the Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD. Places are limited and booking is essential. Please RSVP to this event via the Eventbrite link: https://bbk-pittsburgh-bimi.eventbrite.com/ ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org