Proxima Competition 2023 / Say God Bye / Switzerland 2023
“JLG is like a sun, as soon as you get too close to it, you burn. If you ignore it, you miss the light.” Respected Swiss director Thomas Imbach on the “God of Cinema” who, as both man and filmmaker, has kept him spellbound his whole life. Chancing upon images of the ailing grand master, he was inspired to set off on foot on a pilgrimage from Lakes Zurich to Geneva to pay tribute to Godard and to attempt to persuade the latter to film with him. An original and playful diary filmed on an iPhone and on 35mm during the trip, where loyal pilgrim Imbach looks back at his own career and conducts a dialogue with his magnetic role model. A road movie conceived – literally, “on his own two feet” – as an informed Godard masterclass about perceiving the world through cinema and much else besides.
Karel Och
124 min / Color, Black & White, DCP
World premiere
Director Thomas Imbach
/ Screenplay Thomas Imbach
/ Dir. of Photography Thomas Imbach
/ Music Lukas Langenegger
/ Sound Peter Bräker, David Charap
/ Editor Thomas Imbach
/ Producer Thomas Imbach
/ Production Okofilm Productions
/ Cast Jean-Luc Godard, David Charap, Thomas Imbach
/ Contact Okofilm Productions GmbH, Kathleen McInnis
www: www.saygodbye.ch
Thomas Imbach (1962, Lucerne). Selected filmography: Happiness Is a Warm Gun (2001), Day Is Done (2011, doc.), Mary, Queen of Scots (2013), Nemesis (2020, doc.), Say God Bye (2023, doc.).
Okofilm Productions GmbH
Hohlstrasse 208, CH, 8004, Zürich
Switzerland
Phone: +41 442 419 563
E-mail: [email protected]
Kathleen McInnis
620 N Plymouth Blvd, 90004, Los Angeles
United States of America
Phone: +1 310 733 9805
E-mail: [email protected]
Thomas Imbach
Film Director
Emmanuelle Koenig
Producer
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