Alphaville (1965) 99 Min With no special sets, shot on location in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard cast B-Film Detective Eddie Constantine with Anna Karina to make a dystopian comment on the dehumanizing nature of a technology, using self-referential film noir techniques that often mock the genre.
Blinding headlights flash
Flash on and off neurotic codes
The Legend speaks.
This is an assault
Premeditated 
On the audience and its Legend
All future is now present
Alienated by the new style
Of architecture
Bullets in both breasts
Snuff a lighter
As only an American can do
Reading Éluard’s Capital of Pain
Caution discovers what illuminates
The night is poetry
Machine guns eliminate the irrational
While bathing beauties
Dive in for the bodies.
A giant fan shreds light
Just as a computer Alpha 60 might
With a voice box for its cancerous larynx
Lemmy from Figaro-Pravda
Under interrogation cites Pascal
“The silence of infinite space appalls me.”
Alpha 60 rejects the uncanny
There is no WHY
There is only BECAUSE
Who lives in the present
Loses resistance
Conscience demands action
[Disposable Poem March 24, 2016]
Dr. Mike
Jump Cuts 
Something’s left out
between subject and object
to undermine the power
of master over slave.
Background fills in
with quicksand the structures
that suggest broken cities
abandoned to the rain.
Atrial fibulation proves there’s
no steady heart between lovers;
the nitrate in each celluloid
spontaneously combusts.
[Disposable Anti-Poem April 9, 2013]
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Alphaville, in which Godard as a computer burps philosophy instead of the alphabet.
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Godard hired a man with an artificial larynx to play the computer.
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