King Lear - 2025 Collage
2025 · 5m · Unknown
Directed by Vincent Bergeron
Genres: essay film, experimental
Tones: contemplative, provocative
A rapid montage improvisation as homage to Godard's 1987 King Lear.
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Rapid-montage homage to Godard's already-impenetrable King Lear, arguing the audio is stronger than the visuals — fine, but at this point Bergeron is making the same film on a loop. Curious but suspicious.
Bergeron's homage explicitly admits that Godard's audio outpaced his image — a piece of honest self-criticism that places this work in the lineage of Histoire(s) du cinéma without pretending to its scale. The source list (Aslani, Tsukamoto, Demirkubuz) is curatorially serious.
The director's own description argues Godard's '87 King Lear audio is stronger than its video, then proceeds to remix it against Chess of the Wind, Birdy, and Gemini — that's a real critical thesis at montage speed. Five minutes is the right runtime for this kind of histoire(s)-by-improvisation; couldn't reach the file past captcha.