Retrospective Anne-Marie Miéville
THE CINEMA OF ANNE-MARIE MIÉVILLE: THE PAINFUL ENCOUNTER WITH THE OTHER
This year's retrospective honors an essential filmmaker—also a screenwriter and editor—who uniquely captures the complexities of encountering others, both in human relationships and through media communication.
The program features her four solo feature films, alongside her extensive short film oeuvre. It also showcases some of her most pivotal collaborations with Jean-Luc Godard, a filmmaker with whom she shared both a personal and professional relationship for years.
In her cinematic partnership with Godard, Miéville explored her vision of cinema as a space of commonality, a medium that inevitably nudges us toward the unfamiliar. In this shared domestic space, cinema emerges as a profoundly political tool, one that welcomes the encounter with otherness. Their intimate and reflective dialogue within their home became a fertile ground for the creation of a cinema that invites us to listen to and understand diverse realities.
In this spirit, the couple established their own studio, Sonimage, far from Paris in the Swiss city of Grenoble. It was a space where they could control every aspect of film production and post-production. This project became a sanctuary for dialogue between the two, serving as the foundation for a more liberated and open cinema.
Miéville's film career examines complex relationships—between genders, humans, images, and spectators—in a relentless pursuit of a space for dialogue that dismantles totalizing discourses. The sole promise of her cinema is that a common ground emerges from the act of communication and confrontation—a place we can share with the other. From the Márgenes Festival and Filmoteca Española, we invite you to learn, to unlearn, and to embrace the courage to do so again. This, in essence, is the promise of Anne-Marie Miéville's cinema: a truly political cinema.
