... ...The second movement brought the image (cinema and video, and one via the other, but also photography) closer to literature and to language. Literature, for the position of enunciation, the nature of the creative gesture, the indeterminacy of the works, their reflexive capacities. Language, in the sense where words are now, more and more, at one with the image (instead of just getting mixed in with it, as was the case with silent film, which had foreseen this tendency). This is exemplary strength behind Godard's Puissance de la parole (1988, and his Histoires du cinema, 1988—1998) for which all his previous work served as preparation.
