Save the honor of the real: Didi-Huberman and Godard´s images

Abstract

In his last volume, the series L'oeil de l'Histoire, that Georges Didi-Huberman devoted to a courageous reflection on the action of the images, arrives surprisingly in Godard. With the title Passés cités par JLG, the latter part of the small sum simply intrudes technical images in the discussion. The blow was prepared since 2004, in Images malgré tout, whose latter chapters deal with the accusation that makes Godard of the blindness of his contemporaries, notably with the controversy Godard & Lanzmann around the Shoah archives. The purpose of this study is to show how, siding with Godard and, more than that, revolving his poetic assembly, the philosopher reaffirms the hypothesis that, in a world in which ordinary images proliferate, some of them snatch the real, support the traumatic memory and “after all” they save History.