1 / 6

Introducing Agnès Varda

Introducing Agnès Varda. Biography. Born 1928 in Brussels Studied photography and art history at Ecole du Louvre Worked as photographer for Théâtre National Populaire Currently installation artist and photographer as well as filmmaker. Image source: Senses of Cinema.

ocean
Download Presentation

Introducing Agnès Varda

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. IntroducingAgnèsVarda

  2. Biography • Born 1928 in Brussels • Studied photography and art history at Ecole du Louvre • Worked as photographer for Théâtre National Populaire • Currentlyinstallation artist and photographer as well as filmmaker Image source: Senses of Cinema

  3. “Mother” of the French New Wave • La Pointe Courte (1954) • Made by Varda’s own production company, Ciné-Tamaris, without Varda undergoing apprenticeship and credentialing process dictated by French film industry • Narrative structure from Faulkner’s The Wild Palms • Focused on neighborhood in city of Sète, in which she had lived as teenager • Viewed as precursor to French New Wave films in blend of documentary and fiction, mixture of neorealist aesthetics and high cultural artifacts, and self-reflexivity Still from La Pointe Courte (1954). Image source: Criterion Collection Database

  4. Documentary/Autobiography • L'Opera-Mouffe (1958) • The Gleaners and I (2000) Fiction • Cléo de 5 à 7 (1961) • Le Bonheur (1964) • One Sings, The Other Doesn’t (1976) • Vagabond (1985) • Kung Fu Master (1987) Experimental • Lion’s Love(1969) Selected Filmography Vardaworking across (and integrating) multiple cinematic genres

  5. Varda’s Cinécriture • Literally “cinematic writing” • Interest in filmic writing placing Varda within Left Bank group of filmmakers, but her vision distinct • For Varda, cinécriture involves composition of screenplay, cast, location, camera position and movement, editing rhythm, and sound to create specific meanings Image source: Reverseblog

  6. Varda onCinécriture “A well written film is also well filmed, the actors are well chosen, so are the locations. The cutting, the movement, the points-of-view, the rhythm of filming and editing have been felt and considered in the way a writer chooses the depth of meaning of sentences, the type of words, number of adverbs, paragraphs, asides, chapters which advance the story or break its flow, etc. In writing it’s called style. In the cinema style is cinécriture” (qtd. in Alison Smith, Agnès Varda, 14).

More Related