BEEN THERE

While discussing his Les Carabiniers, Jean-Luc Godard assured his audience that he had consulted some of the most serious war documents before making the film — postcards from far away places sent home by soldiers, seemingly mundane and pleasant images, but whose real pleasure comes from the consciousness of a possible appropriation and, then, of complicity: the postcard, a foreign image on which are put the names of a sender and a recipient, its, therefore, two new possesors. Corina Schwingruber Ilić seems to agree with Godard’s aphorism that tourism is another way of making war, one disguised as leisure and simplicity. (Călin Boto)