{"id":10453,"date":"2013-03-12T20:53:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T03:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=10453"},"modified":"2013-03-20T12:35:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T19:35:49","slug":"camera-eye-1967-film-on-vietnam-by-jean-luc-godard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2013\/03\/12\/camera-eye-1967-film-on-vietnam-by-jean-luc-godard\/","title":{"rendered":"Camera Eye: 1967 Film on Vietnam by Jean Luc Godard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wpid-Photo-Mar-12-2013-851-PM.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" id=\"blogsy-1363391747330.8555\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/wpid-Photo-Mar-12-2013-851-PM.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Godard was asked to make a short piece on Vietnam as part of an omnibus film called &#8216;Far From Vietnam&#8217; that was being edited by the great experimental filmmaker Chris Marker. He was unable to actually go there so he used film clips and shot himself looking through a 35mm camera. His voiceover connects the war in Vietnam to his own life and to social struggles going on in Paris. He makes a fascinating attempt to express the futility of making a film about the war without any real understanding of it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dzkzO9jKkgY\" height=\"381\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godard was asked to make a short piece on Vietnam as part of an omnibus film called &#8216;Far From Vietnam&#8217; that was being edited by the great experimental filmmaker Chris Marker. He was unable to actually go there so he used film clips and shot himself looking through a 35mm camera. His voiceover connects the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1158,1314,1458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","category-documentary-film","category-short-films"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10477,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10453\/revisions\/10477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}