JEAN-LUC GODARD

Jean-Luc Godard devoted the final years of his life to the realisation of a project he described as his ultimate work, initially titled Scénario and later renamed Scénarios just a week before his voluntary death in September 2022.

The project was, at times, ambitious and multifaceted—a film, an exhibition, an opera—and at others, more focused, confronting the ageing body and the horizon of death. It both extended the creative path he had established with The Image Book (2018) and marked a radical departure from it. Scénario(s) invites viewers on a journey through the traces of this final creative gesture. It begins with the screening of Scénarios (18 min), completed in the last days of Godard’s life, and Exposé du film annonce du film “Scénario” (36 min), an earlier work that delves into the thought processes behind the film.

In this long sequence shot, Godard’s hands and voice expose the film to come, immersing the viewer in the heart of an idea still in formation. The exhibition then moves to the five creative notebooks Godard assembled to reflect and transmit his project, presenting page-by-page reproductions that visitors can explore in detail, offering an unprecedented look into his meticulous, tactile method of “thinking with hands”.