Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
7:00 PM
L'Alliance New York
22 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022
Scheduled
About This Event
L'Alliance New York presents Jean‑Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned, a program focused on the filmmaker's formal tactics. Godard, the French‑Swiss director and critic central to the French New Wave, treated editing, sound and camera placement as arguments and often broke narrative flow to reveal how images persuade; his work has been shown in New York museum contexts such as MoMA.
About Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned
At L’Alliance New York, **Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned** screens as a study of the director’s working methods rather than a survey of titles. The program tracks how Godard treated editing, sound, and camera position as a kind of commentary, interrupting narrative to show the machinery of images and ideas. In a city where his films helped shape art-house repertory culture, the series reads as a reminder that form can function like an argument. One clear takeaway is how refusal, in Godard, becomes a discipline.
About the Artist
Jean-Luc Godard
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.