Jean-Luc Godard has become many things: a director, an editor, an actor, a film critic, an artist, a radical, a poet, a historian, a philosopher, an influencer. The list goes on and on, but one more credit should be tacked to his name: architect. At least, that’s what the British Film Institute argues in their appropriately-titled “Jean-Luc Godard as Architect,” their latest six-minute video exploration on the French New Wave multi-hyphenate.
Now, of course, Godard never put brick to metal in his career. So the BFI isn’t saying he’s an architect in the traditional sense. What Richard Martin, the narrator of the video essay and the author behind “The Architecture of David Lynch,” argues, is that the 85-year-old filmmaker can be qualified as such based on how he keeps “building, capturing and arranging spaces” throughout his varied work. Specifically, how architecture shapes us, and how buildings and spaces change over time. Paris, naturally, is the key location of choice for the...
