Archive of films Say God Bye / Say God Bye
Switzerland
2023, 124 min
Section:
Proxima Competition
Year: 2023
Synopsis
“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
About the director
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.).
Contacts
Okofilm Productions GmbH
Hohlstrasse 208, CH, 8004, Zürich
Switzerland
Tel: +41 442 419 563
E-mail: [email protected]
Publicity contact
Kathleen McInnis
620 N Plymouth Blvd, 90004, Los Angeles
United States of America
Tel: +1 310 733 9805
E-mail: [email protected]
About the film
Color, Black & White, DCP
World premiere
Section: | Proxima Competition |
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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 |
Guests
Thomas Imbach
Film Director
Emmanuelle Koenig
Producer