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Film/Video REGIS DIALOGUE AND RETROSPECTIVE AGNÈS VARDA FEBRUARY 2-24, 2001 SCREENINGS $6 ($4 WALKER MEMBERS) EXCEPT WHERE NOTED REGIS DIALOGUE $12 ($6) AUDITORIUM |
"I don't object to the label feminist, but I hope I look kindly on everyone, without presenting men as clowns any more than women. I am more concerned with what society has turned us all into."--Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda's films have always been personal. Her signature elements can be clearly discerned: namely, a tendency to inflect narrative with documentary reality, a deep interest in everyday life, and a photographer's keen and practiced eye. She is a pioneering director whose obsession and passion is to film the truth as she sees it. A critical feminist, Varda regards her filmmaking as artisanal work and has established her own atelier, Ciné-Tamaris, to make movies. She belongs to a select group of filmmakers who seek the spiritual through the medium of film.
Varda began as a still photographer working primarily in the theater, and then--with no film school education, no production experience, and no particular love of cinema--she threw herself into making films. She completed her first feature, La Pointe Courte, in 1954. Five years before the Nouvelle Vague she utilized the freedom and the principles that characterized the French New Wave directors. Varda was in a certain sense "the first bell sound of a huge carillon concert." She went on to rock the film world with groundbreaking works like Cléo from 5 to 7, Happiness, Jacquot, Documenteur, and Vagabond.
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