A filmmaker who digs deep to get at truths and has revolutionized the possibilities for the makers of moving images as much as Pollock did for painters, Godard believes in the necessity of dialogue. Commissioned by MoMA to make a video essay on aspects of art in modern times, he and his partner Anne-Marie Miéville posed the question: What is art at the end of the 20th century? They select images and words and read from texts and layer musical passages in an elegiac collage that rejects much of contemporary art and culture; they use a hybrid form itself—collage—to continue a new form of montage in cinema, a way of exploring through the essay, through speculation and quotation, human history and its language.