Jean-Luc Godard Leverhulme Fellowship

Professor Michael Witt was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship in 2022-23 to carry out research for a monograph on the many unmade and abandoned projects developed by the French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) over the course of his long career. This involved conducting extensive research in public archives and private collections in several countries on the surviving traces of these diverse unrealised projects, which include films, television programmes, plays, books and exhibitions. The resultant monograph offers the first investigation of this vast corpus, and the first book-length study of the complete unmade and abandoned works of any filmmaker.