Alain Resnais (1922-2014, France) was an editor and filmmaker, considered as one of the founders of the French New Wave cinema. He started making 8mm flms at the age of thirteen, and later attended L’Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) where he trained as an editor, later working as a professional editor until the late 1950s. He began his career making short documentaries, including Van Gogh (1948), Guernica (1950,) and Statues Also Die (1953). He gained worldwide recognition with his first and second feature films, Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and Last Year in Marienbad (1961). He is also known for My American Uncle (1980) and On connaît la chanson (1997). Recurring motifs in his films are memory and unconventional concepts of time.