Page from Cahiers du Cinéma, no. 300, May 1979. The caption under the photograph reads: "The Image and Its Secret." In the late 1970s Jean-Luc Godard was invited to Mozambique to start a television station for the new Marxist government of Samora Michel. Godard famously refused to use Kodak film, claiming that it was inherently racist, and turned to video instead. The project ended in failure and no trace of his video exists. However, Godard guest-edited issue 300 of Cahiers du Cinéma, which ...
