Scénario: The Five Notebooks by Jean-Luc Godard

Published by  Le Livre d’Image Éditions and Editions RWB, 2025
Printing of 1,000 numbered copies

Film Desk Books is proud to be the exclusive U.S. online seller of this deluxe boxset that brings together, reproduced identically, Godard’s five Scénario notebooks by Jean-Luc Godard.

For his final film, Godard assembled five notebooks: five sketches for a film composed of images, painting, drawing, photography, and texts cited or invented. These notebooks are “paper films;” mobilizing different manual and conceptual techniques they are simultaneously research tools and the development of an original form of language.

The notebooks have been faithfully reproduced using the most exceptional technical means available in contemporary printing, allowing them to approach, as closely as possible, the plastic qualities of the originals: including strikethroughs, stains, textures, and overprinting. The boxset is completed with a booklet with English translations of the five notebooks by Michael Witt, accompanied by introductory texts by Dominique Païni, Nicole Brenez and Jean‑Paul Battaggia.

Editorial Design: Mitra Farahani, in collaboration with Aurélien Petit
With the support of Robert Rubin and Stéphane Samuel
Written contributions: Dominique Païni, Nicole Brenez, Jean‑Paul Battagia
English Translations: Michael Witt, Nicholas Elliott, Helen Bandis, Sara Battagia
Graphic design: Élie Colistro
Printed and bound in July 2025 by Grafiche Milani, Segrate (Milan).

Click here to see Gagosian Quarterly’s recent piece on Scénario: The Five Notebooks by Jean-Luc Godard (pages 106-109)