Thursday, May 25
3:20 pm – 3:40 pm (CEST)
“It’s not blood in Pierrot le fou,” said Jean-Luc Godard in 1965, “but red.” Tamara Tasevska, in response to this frequently cited Godardism, argues that the quote reveals more than the great director’s use of color as a means of Brechtian distancing—namely, his penchant to use color to highlight provocative connections between aesthetics and politics.