The Cinema of Agnès Varda

Author: Delphine Benezet
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231850611
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 169

Book Description
Agnès Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, filmmakers, and audiences alike, as audacious, seminal, and unforgettable. This volume considers her production as a whole, revisiting overlooked films like Mur, Murs/Documenteur (1980–81), and connecting her cinema to recent installation work. This study demonstrates how Varda has resisted norms of representation and diktats of production. It also shows how she has elaborated a personal repertoire of images, characters, and settings, which all provide insight on their cultural and political contexts. The book thus offers new readings of this director's multifaceted rêveries, arguing that her work should be seen as an aesthetically influential and ethically-driven production where cinema is both a political and collaborative practice, and a synesthetic art form.

Agnes Varda Between Film, Photography, and Art

Author: Rebecca J. DeRoo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520279417
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Based on interviews with Agnès Varda and unparalleled access to her archives, this extensively researched book demonstrates how Varda draws upon the histories of art, photography, and film to complicate the overt narratives in her works and to advance contemporary cultural politics

The Cinema of Agns Varda

Author: Delphine Benezet
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231169744
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
Agnès Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, filmmakers, and audiences alike, as audacious, seminal, and unforgettable. This volme considers her production as a whole, revisiting overlooked films like Mur, Murs/Documenteur (1980–81), and connecting her cinema to recent installation work. This study demonstrates how Varda has resisted norms of representation and diktats of production. It also shows how she has elaborated a personal repertoire of images, characters, and settings, which all provide insight on their cultural and political contexts. The book thus offers new readings of this director’s multifaceted rêveries, arguing that her work should be seen as an aesthetically influential and ethically-driven production where cinema is both a political and collaborative practice, and a synesthetic art form.

Agnès Varda

Author: Agnès Varda
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617039209
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Collected interviews with the French filmmaker who is sometimes called the "Mother of the New Wave"

Agnes Varda

Author: Alison Smith
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526141132
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
The first introduction in English devoted wholly to Varda and aimed at a general and student audience. Places Varda's major films in the context of her whole oeuvre and follows the development of important themes across her work.

Agnes Varda

Author: Kelley Conway
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252039720
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Both a precursor to and a critical member of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda weaves documentary and fiction into tapestries that portray distinctive places and complex human beings. Critics and aficionados have celebrated Varda's independence and originality since the New Wave touchstone Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) brought her a level of international acclaim she has yet to relinquish. Film historian Kelley Conway traces Varda's works from her 1954 debut La Pointe Courte through a varied career that includes nonfiction and fiction shorts and features, installation art, and the triumphant 2008 documentary The Beaches of Agnès . Drawing on Varda's archives and conversations with the filmmaker, Conway focuses on the concrete details of how Varda makes films: a project's emergence, its development and the shifting forms of its screenplay, the search for financing, and the execution from casting through editing and exhibition. In the process, she departs from film history's traditional view of the French New Wave and reveals one artist's nontraditional trajectory through independent filmmaking. The result is an intimate consideration that reveals the artistic consistencies and bold changes in the career of one of the world's most exuberant and intriguing directors.

Agnes Varda Between Film, Photography, and Art

Author: Rebecca J. DeRoo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520279409
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
"Proceeding chronologically, from the beginning of Varda's career in the 1950s to the present, this book focuses on moments where Varda's invocation of different artistic traditions within film opens onto complex commentary on broader aesthetic, theoretical, feminist, and political discussions. I reinterpret some of her best known films, but also focus attention on other less familiar works that merit further consideration. I reassess individual works with the goal of interrogating Varda's visual dialogues to reconstruct the cultural politics of the periods in which they were made. This process of reading new strands of meaning across Varda's oeuvre relies on a richly interdisciplinary approach. The result is a new cultural history of Varda and her work that makes clear how she actively engaged and subtly broadened some of the most advanced aesthetic and political discourse of her day. Many of Varda's sophisticated commentaries on controversial issues of her time have receded from view in the biographical frameworks in which her work often has been considered. The range of her engagement in her work with cinema, art history, photography, and visual culture has not been fully recognized. This decontextualization of Varda's work has been compounded by the frequent emphasis on her exceptionality within her fields of practice. In contrast, I view Varda's work as a projection of cultural history that illuminates multiple disciplines, including art history, cinema studies, visual culture, and modern French history"--Provided by publisher.

To Desire Differently

Author: Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231104975
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description
Explores impact of 3 women filmmakers on French films

Agnes Varda

Author: Kelley Conway
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097823
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Slow Movies

Author: Ira Jaffe
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231169795
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
"In all film there is the desire to capture the motion of life, to refuse immobility," Agnes Varda has noted. But to capture the reality of human experience, cinema must fasten on stillness and inaction as much as motion. Slow Movies investigates movies by acclaimed international directors who in the past three decades have challenged mainstream cinema's reliance on motion and action. More than other realist art cinema, slow movies by Lisandro Alonso, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Pedro Costa, Jia Zhang-ke, Abbas Kiarostami, Cristian Mungiu, Alexander Sokurov, Bela Tarr, Gus Van Sant and others radically adhere to space-times in which emotion is repressed along with motion; editing and dialogue yield to stasis and contemplation; action surrenders to emptiness if not death.