这部短片的片名“自由与故乡”原本是瑞士西南沃州省的官方口号，沃州邻近法国，其首府洛桑是高达和米耶维勒生长和定居的家乡。两位导演受到瑞士文化节的委托拍摄影片，改编一部著名的瑞士传记小说“艾梅帕什，画家从沃州”（查尔斯费迪南德雷默兹，1911），将主角人物画家艾梅帕什前往巴黎学画后返乡的故事，与高达自己的作品与人生经历做类比。片中节选高达之前的影片段落，与画家的生平事件，当代文化指涉，以及高达对60年代和电影的自我嘲讽相互交叠，加上对画家和两位导演都深具影响的瑞士美丽土地的影像，创造出宛如“镜中镜”相互映照的奇特效果。伟大的艺术源自丰富的人生阅历，三位艺术家们彼此的生命记忆交错浮现，化成现实与寓言的精密结晶，创造出丰沛的感染力，短短20分钟的观影经验竟让人如同读完一部精彩无比的长篇小说

The title of this twenty-minute video by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, “Freedom and Fatherland,” is the official slogan of the Canton de Vaud, in Switzerland, where the filmmakers live and grew up. To fulfill their commission from a Swiss cultural festival, they adapted a great Swiss novel, “Aimé Pache, Painter from the Vaud,” by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, from 1911 (about a local artist who goes to Paris for his education and then returns home) and extruded its autobiographical analogies to Godard’s own life and work. Using a choice set of clips from Godard’s films to coincide with events from the painter’s life, verbal references to modern times and to Godard’s own—Sartre, the late nineteen-sixties, the cinema—and images of the Swiss terrain, which plays a decisive role in the work of Pache, Godard, and Miéville (an important filmmaker in her own right), they produce the effect of mirrors within mirrors.

스위스 문화축제의 제안으로 만든 작품. 스위스 보Vaud 주의 화가 에매 파슈의 삶과 고다르 자신의 삶과 작품을 연결해 예술적 경험과 삶의 기억을 다룬다.