CONTENTS
Preface to the English Edition

Introduction
Two Image Researchers

1. Le film qui pense
Image, Theory, Practice
Film as a “Concrete Medium”
Film Theories / Film as Theory
Difference and Theory
Montage and Cinematic Thinking

2. The Camera as Brush—Film and Painting
Narrating with Images: Breathless
Exploding the Museum: Pierrot Le Fou
Arranging Things: Still Life
Processing Images: Passion

3. Deviation as Norm—Notes on the Essay Film

4. Cut—Interlude in the Editing Room
What an Editing Room is: Interface
Montage, toujours: JLG/JLG

5. Taking pictures—Photography and Film
Displacing: The Carabineers
Rendering: Before Your Eyes Vietnam
Surveying: Images of the World and the Inscription of War

6. Two or Three Ways of Speaking with the Hands
Asking Oneself: La Chinoise / Vent d’est
Offering Oneself: Nouvelle vague
Expressing Oneself: Georg K. Glaser / The Expression of Hands

Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Index of Film Titles
Index of Names
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