MAPPING/ FILM VISUAL ANALYSIS
Jean Luc Godard’s 1963 film Le Mepris (Contempt) is characteristic’s of the film maker’s eccentric “New Wave” ( La Nouvelle Vague) Modernist visual style. Set props with primary hues of yellow, red, and blues establish a visual rythym that accompanies the turbulent emotional disposition of the film’s main characters. Central to the film’s humanistic focus is the emotional relationship
between the male protoganist and his distant wife.
The project maps out the cinematic spaces as they
occur in the apartment scene. A series of scene
fragments highlight the filmmaker’s orchestration of cinematic views, and the actor’s navigation within the apartment spaces. Plan projections from the movie camera are mapped in addition to the volume of dialogue between the two characters. The project establishes a method of data mapping that highlights the film maker’s unique visual sensibilities.