Little Godard (1978)

10.0/10 84 min Documentary

Overview

The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise funding for his film project. This creates an unconventional experimental setup, which reveals how the economics, politics, technology, and aesthetics of filmmaking relate to each other – with the ‘great’ Godard being called up as a kind of chief witness.

Cast

Hellmuth Costard

Applicant

Werner Grassmann

Film producer

Hark Bohm

First Director

Wolfgang Treu

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Second Director

Michael Ballhaus

Harry Baer

Andréa Ferréol

Jean-Luc Godard

Guest

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