Anne-Marie Miéville

Four people discuss love and life, learning and revealing more about each other than they ever imagined.

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 and extruded its autobiographical analogies to Godard's own life and work.

Godard and Miéville use The Old Place to voice their own personal philosophies; in the process, they manage to speak for humanity as a whole, posing questions that sometimes have no concrete answers. (viennale.at)

It examines the parallel lives of two families - one French, one Palestinian - using an exploratory combination of film and video. [Made using footage from the unfinished "Jusqu'à la victoire" (1970)]

A film about politics and the media, in which two workers in a newspaper plant attempt to make a film. (imdb)

This complex, intimately scaled study of the effect of television on the French family is constructed around Godard's interviews with a school girl and school boy, Camille and Arnaud. Godard's provocative questions to the children range from the philosophical (Do you think you have an existence?) to the social (What does revolution mean to you?).

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks around their house. (imdb)

At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten subject. Through the remainder of his hotel stay, Piccoli tests Godard's hypothesis. (imdb)

Workers on a car factory argue with revolutionary students.

Mary's parents split up. Things happen. Originally shown together with Godard's Hail Mary.

A portrait of three women - daughter, mother and grandmother - each attempting to tackle their problems in their own way. The story begins with a funeral. (BFI)

Lou and Pierre are estranged lovers trying to get together despite life pulling them apart.

Four short films by seminal French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard comprise the first cinema DVD in a new series produced by ECM Records. Made between 1993 and 2002, the films "encompass everything: art and freedom, presence and memory, violence and passion - four symphonies composed of images, tones, quotes, and soundtracks". (SM)

Godard films a 40 minute promo video for French electronics outlet Darty.

Godard's contribution to the UNICEF film How are the Kids?

On April 24 [2006] the Georges Pompidou Center began a retrospective devoted to a man synonymous with cinema itself: Jean-Luc Godard. Godard and Miéville do a walk-through of the maquette, with Miéville (wo)manning the camera and Godard pointing at things and describing them. (The New York Times)

Each of the six programs is constructed of two complementary segments: A discursive visual essay on one aspect of the production and consumption of images is paired with a related interview on labor and leisure with an individual -- an amateur filmmaker, a dairy farmer, the mathematician René Thom, Godard himself. These extended interviews provide a subjective counterpoint to the theoretical essays on work, economics and mass cultural imagery. (EAI)

Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist who has since died in prison. The short films were commissioned by Amnesty International. (imdb)

Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue of Plato and Socrates) while doing the house work, the husband of one of them rehearses his part in a play (reading a 20th century philosophical text about totaliarism) at the theater. Returning home, the couple decide to go on vacation in the mountains. (imdb)