On and Under Communication

Abstract

This chapter examines the collaborative work made by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville under the name “Sonimage” from 1973 to 1979. The Sonimage work is characterized intellectually by a rejection of the Marxist- Leninist theory that had underpinned the work of the Dziga Vertov Group and the Godard–Gorin collaboration. Information theory underpins Godard and Miéville's analyses of communication throughout the Sonimage period. It helped Godard and Miéville in four principal ways. First, it offered a model of a communication circuit. Second, it gave them a means of scrutinizing a wide range of communication processes, and allowed them in conjunction with their quasi-scientific use of video as an audiovisual research tool to identify a wide variety of information flows. Third, it enabled them to isolate and analyse points of blockage. Fourth, it provided them with a model of communication through which to theorize their own lacunary essayistic practice.

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