Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication

A dense, cerebral essay series that asks you to think alongside its images and interviews, rewarding patience with provocative ideas.

Created by

Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Luc Godard

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville

Overview

In this radically unconventional television series, Godard and Miéville analyze the political economy of personal and mass media communications in relation to society, culture, family and the individual. Their inquiry focuses "on and beneath" communications in a provocative critique of the power of media images in contemporary culture and everyday life. Each of the six programs is constructed of two complementary segments: A discursive visual essay on one aspect of the production and consumption of images is paired with a related interview on labor and leisure with an individual — an amateur filmmaker, a dairy farmer, the mathematician René Thom, Godard himself. These extended interviews provide a subjective counterpoint to the theoretical essays on work, economics and mass cultural imagery.

How it feels

Earnest, satirical and cynical. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Media, politics, work, class

Content

Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.

Note

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