Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1972)

Jean-Luc Godard: Narrator

Quotes 

• Narrator : [repeated exchange between both narrators]  I think therefore I am.

  Narrator : I think therefore I am.

• Narrator : The camera took this photograph from a low-angle. Actually in the history of cinema this low point of view cannot be considered an innocent one. This fact has been emphasized technically and socially by Orson Wells in his first pictures. The choice of frame is not neutral or innocent either. The frame is composed in relation to the actress who is looking, rather than in relation to what she is looking at. She is presented in the frame as if she were a star... The following page shows photographs of what she saw at other moments, but now what she was looking at in this photograph. As far as we are concerned these are the same type of pictures that now flow automatically through the channels of TV and newspaper publications in the free world.