Little Godard

The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise funding for his film project. This creates an unconventional experimental setup, which reveals how the economics, politics, technology, and aesthetics of filmmaking relate to each other – with the ‘great’ Godard being called up as a kind of chief witness.

• Release date
• June 8, 1978
• Runtime
• 84 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Hellmuth Costard

Cast

Hellmuth Costard Applicant

H

Hilka Nordhausen Gallery owner

A

Andy Hertel Painter Werner Grassmann Film producer

H

Herbert Jeschke Friend Hark Bohm First Director Wolfgang Treu Rainer Werner Fassbinder Second Director