Histoire(s) du Cinéma: The Control of the Universe (EOTWS)

Histoire(s) du Cinéma x8 extract: The Control of the Universe (1998)

In the penultimate part of Histoire(s) du Cinéma, Godard constructs a poem of two clear halves. The fist half of The Control Of The Universe suggests that cinema is a construction of humanity and that it should be under the complete control of the auteur - and this is suggested with focus on Hitchcock, form and style. This then inspires a Soviet Constructivist perspective that someone such as Vertov would hold with his concept of the Kino-Eye; cinema can show what is inaccessible to the naked eye in the hands of a few select people 

This is followed up by existentialist meanderings which contrast and conflict with this suggested power of the artist. The purpose of this part then seems to be to imply a tension between human control and 'free will'.