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Vagabond

Vagabond. Agnès Varda and Feminist Filmmaking. Topics for Discussion. Varda’s process, inspirations, and style Narrative structure and effects Constructing the woman Alternative gaze structure . Process. Travel and research as preproduction Encounters shaping story.

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Vagabond

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  1. Vagabond AgnèsVarda and Feminist Filmmaking

  2. Topics for Discussion • Varda’s process, inspirations, and style • Narrative structure and effects • Constructing the woman • Alternative gaze structure

  3. Process • Travel and research as preproduction • Encounters shaping story Varda and Sandrine Bonnaire on the set of Vagabond. Image source: The Hollywood Interview

  4. Inspirations Nathalie Sarraute Setina

  5. Style • Cinécriture--Film Writing • Left-Bank Group: Concerns with time, memory, narration and a form of cinematic writing that parallels the novel • French New Wave Style • Jump cuts, editing not motivated by narrative • Emphasis on form (demonstrates director’s understanding of film language) • Fragmentation of narrative form • Self-reflexive cinema • Blurring of documentary and fiction line • Mix of realism and mythical, pagan, Judeo-Christian figures Still from Vagabond (1985). Image source: British Film Institute

  6. Narrative • What narrative structures does Vagabond use to relate Mona’s encounters and the reflections these encounters inspire? • What is the relationship between the film’s various segments (spatial, chronological, thematic, parallelism, etc.)? • How does the film alter presentation of cause and effect? • What is the effect of the film’s integration of multiple points of view?

  7. Stills from Vagabond (1985) • What characteristics do the various witnesses ascribe to Mona? • How are their views informed by particular notions of femininity? Identity Construction Image source: Slant Magzine

  8. How does the film structure gazing? Gaze Still from Vagabond (1985). Image source: DavidBordwell.net

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