A Weekend at the Beach, with Jean-Luc Godard

In 1978 Ira Schneider shared a house with Jean Pierre Gorin on the beach in Del Mar, California. We were both professors at the University of California, San Diego. Gorin once worked with Godard on a film and invited him to give a lecture at our school. Godard came and stayed at their house. Other filmworld & creative people came to hear Godard. They also stayed at our house. Among them Wim Wenders, Heiner Müller and Jim McBride. I videotaped some of our time at our house on the pacific ocean beach. By 1984 friends who saw it pressured him to make the tape public. Shortly before Ira Schnieder edited it, he had seen some Godard political/very wordy films which he couldn’t stand. He therefore spoke a rather cynical narration. In 2009 he was asked to include an introductory verbal statement explaining the above & the sarcastic tone of the A Weekend at the Beach, with Jean-Luc Godard. —Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid (art-action.org)