briefly on 24fps

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

As it probably has been pointed out on the p-list, the
name "24fps" refers to Godard at least in two ways.

Firstly there is the Dziga Vertov group of revolutionary
cinema founded in 1968 by Godard, Gorin et al.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dziga_Vertov_Group

Secondly, there's the famous Godard quotation "Photography
is truth - and cinema is truth 24 times a second." This is,
of course, revolutionary romanticism, although it's not
from J-LG's politically revolutionary period.

Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor) utters it in "Le Petit Soldat"
(1960). The film has at its core another affair between a
right-wing male (Bruno) and left-wing female (Anna Karina
as Véronica Dreyer) during another, Algerian, war - the film
was banned in France for 3 years.

As an ambivalent man, Bruno reminds more of the agents of GR,
though. And the FLN-supporter Véronica's fate in the hands of
the French Secret Police is more like that of Dreyer's witches.
And the story is narrated from Bruno's point of view. But I
can't help finding some similarity in the names Bruno/Brock
and Frenesi/Véronica (Berenice in Greek).


Heikki