'' Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux '' ( ; a.k.a. '' Khan Khanne '' ) is a 2014 short film directed by Jean-Luc Godard . It was made as a personal video letter to retiring festival president Gilles Jacob and artistic director Thierry Frémaux explaining Godard 's absence from the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of his feature film '' Goodbye to Language '' . Jacob later release the short film on the internet . In the short film Godard 's narration explains his personal state of mind as an artist and the current " path " that he is on . It includes footage from Godard 's films '' Germany Year 90 Nine Zero '' and '' King Lear '' , quotes by Jacques Prévert and Hannah Arendt , and black and white still photos of Jacques Rivette and François Truffaut as Godard references the autumn and says that he is going " where the wind blows me . " In '' King Lear '' Godard filmed a similar scene that included black and white still photos of film directors like Rivette and Truffaut , but Godard mocked the then recently deceased Truffaut in that film
2014 Cannes Film Festival
2014 Cannes Film Festival
Letter in Motion to Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux