에세이는 단순히 규범에서 자유로운 예술형식이라기보다, ‘어떤 사물의 특성이나 속성, 또는 그 사물의 사용 방법을 확인(검토)하는 작업’이라는 사전적 의미에서 알 수 있듯이 형식적 자유로움, 상대적 간결함을 넘어 실험, 시도, 더 나아가 사유의 비판적, 발견술적 기획과 긴밀히 연관된 예술형식이다. 에세이영화 역시 영화의 고유한 장치에 대한 성찰을 통해 영화 자체(영화 작가, 관객, 매체를 포함하여)를 실험하고 시험에 놓으면서 영화에 대한 사유를 촉발하는 또 다른 가능태로서의 영화 형식이다. 바로 이 점에서 고다르의 작업은 에세이영화의 형식적, 철학적, 정치적 잠재성을 포괄적으로 구현한 대표적 예라 할 수 있다. 특히 고다르는 <6x2>에서 기존의 영화적 문법, 형식, 규범들을 백지상태로 돌리고, 영화의 근본 요소들 및 문제들로 구성된 실험적 에세이를 통해 ‘고다르식 교육학’(다네)이라 불린 이미지의 해체 작업을 시도한다. 고다르는 이러한 실험, 시도, 곧 ‘에세이’를 통해 영화 이미지의 새로운 배치 가능성과 담론 및 언어와의 정치적 관계, 그리고 무엇보다 이미지의 창조적 역량을 새롭게 정립하고자 했다.
Essay is not simply a free art form without formal norms, but rather an experiment, experimentation beyond formal freedom and relative brevity, as the dictionary meaning of ‘the work of confirming (reviewing) the characteristics or properties of an object or its use method’, and more closely related to the critical and heuristic project of thought. Essay film is also another form of film that stimulates thinking about film by experimenting and testing film itself (including film writer and audience) through its own format. In this respect, Godard's work is a representative example of comprehensively realizing the formal, philosophical, and political potential of these essay films. In particular, in <6x2>, Godard turns the existing cinematic grammar, form, and norms into a blank slate, and deconstructs the image called ‘Godardian pedagogy’ (Daney) through an experimental essay composed of the fundamental elements and problems of the film. try Through these experiments and trials, i.e., ‘essays’, Godard tried to re-establish the possibility of new arrangement of cinematic images, the political relationship with discourse and language, and above all, the creative capacity of images.
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