Jawni Han
Jawni Han is a writer and translator originally from Seoul, now based in Brooklyn. Her essays and translation have appeared in The Cut, Film Comment, Mubi Notebook, and The Brooklyn Rail.
By Jawni Han
| December 19, 2025
Harnessing the imperfections in the digital cameras’ image-rendering capabilities and rudimentary audio fidelity, Godard confronts the crisis in neoliberalism, the ascendence of digital cinema, and the extinguished dreams of socialism and celluloid from the previous century.
Revolutionary gestures in cinema have to be excavated from the rubble of film history, and an earnest engagement with this deeply flawed film unveils a reservoir of untapped revelations that can be harnessed in our contemporary queer imagination.