Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville’s TheOld Place and D.W. Griffith’s Biograph Shorts

Jean-Luc Godard was a French-Swiss director, screenwriter, and critic whose films helped define the French New Wave through formal disruption and restless inquiry. His work treats editing, sound, and camera placement as arguments, often breaking narrative flow to expose how images persuade.

Anne-Marie Miéville is a filmmaker and artist whose work moves between cinema, television, and live presentation, often in close dialogue with image and sound. In New York City, she has appeared at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in a free performance setting, alongside programs that connect her work with figures such as Jean-Luc Godard and, in historical contrast, D.

D. W. Griffith is an American film director whose early work helped define how narrative cinema is cut and paced. He is often discussed in relation to the Biograph shorts, where close framing, cross-cutting, and rhythmic editing became central tools rather than afterthoughts.