Godard, Jean-Luc (1930 - )

A Franco-Swiss filmmaker born in Paris in 1930. In the 1950s and 1960s he contributed to the modernity of French cinema as a New Wave film director. At the end of the 1970s he integrated video into his working process and produced a series of engaged films and several video experiments before going back to cinema, without ever losing sight of cinema. Godard is considered as one of the most influential people in cinema. He changes its modes of thinking, writing, shooting and editing.