- Country: Switzerland
- Genres: Short
- Release: 2002-08-01
- Director: Jean-Luc Godard , Anne-Marie Miéville
- Writers: Jean-Luc Godard , Anne-Marie Miéville
- Language: French
- Stars: Jean-Pierre Gos , Geneviève Pasquier
- Runtime: 21 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Liberty and Homeland , Liberdade e Pátria (Brazil) , Liberté et patrie (Switzerland, Swiss Confederation) , 自由と祖国 (Japan) , Wolność i ojczyzna (Poland) , Liberté et patrie , Ελευθερία και πατρίδα (Greece)
- Plot:
The title of this twenty-minute video by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, “Freedom and Fatherland,” is the official slogan of the Canton de Vaud, in Switzerland, where the filmmakers live and grew up. To fulfill their commission from a Swiss cultural festival, they adapted a great Swiss novel, “Aimé Pache, Painter from the Vaud,” by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, from 1911 (about a local artist who goes to Paris for his education and then returns home) and extruded its autobiographical analogies to Godard’s own life and work. Using a choice set of clips from Godard’s films to coincide with events from the painter’s life, verbal references to modern times and to Godard’s own—Sartre, the late nineteen-sixties, the cinema—and images of the Swiss terrain, which plays a decisive role in the work of Pache, Godard, and Miéville (an important filmmaker in her own right), they produce the effect of mirrors within mirrors.
- IMDB:tt0385051