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Original name: Varda par Agnès
English name: Varda by Agnes
Year: 2019
Run time: 115’
Language: English, French
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: France
Director: Agnès Varda
Producer: Rosalie Varda, Dany Boon, Joëy Faré
Cast: Agnès Varda
Screenplay: Agnès Varda
Cinematographer: François Décréau, Claire Duguet, Julia Fabry
Editor: Nicolas Longinotti, Agnès Varda
Sound Designer: David Chaulier, Alan Savary
Production Company: Ciné Tamaris, Arte France
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Godmother of French New Wave Cinema, Agnès Varda is a legendary artists, visual artist, photographer, and filmmaker. She was born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1928 and studied at the École du Louvre, Paris. She made the move to cinema without any formal training. She founded Ciné Tamaris (a cooperative) to produce and direct her first feature, La Pointe Courte (1954). She has since directed short films and features, both fiction and documentaries. In 2003, she began her third career as a visual artist at the Venice Biennale.
Agnès Varda takes a seat on a theatre stage. This professional photographer, installation artist and pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague is an institution of French cinema but a fierce opponent of any kind of institutional thinking. She offers insights into her oeuvre, using excerpts from her work to illustrate – more associatively than chronologically – her artistic visions and ideas. Firstly, she elucidates her ‘analogue period’ from 1954 to 2000, in which the director is in the foreground. This was the young woman who set out to reinvent cinema, someone who was always open to chance and to moments of documentary, even in fiction; who, with every new film, changed her narrative style. In the second part, Agnès Varda focuses on the years from 2000 to 2018, and shows how she uses digital technology to look at the world in her own, unique way.
