Agnès Varda
Birthday: 1928-05-30
Place of Birth: Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
Biography: Agnès Varda (May 30, 1928 – March 29, 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her films, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style.
Movies
The World in Shots
"Il mondo a scatti" is a film that intertwines images of today and yesterday, still images and movin...
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Catherine Deneuve by Chance, or, A Certain Blondeness
A documentary interview with the French actress while on the sets of films in production. Several of...
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The Gleaners and I
Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turni...
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Viva Varda!
Director Agnès Varda talks with LIONS LOVE (. . . AND LIES) star Viva about their work together, in ...
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Janela da Alma
Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total bli...
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The Beaches of Agnès
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the F...
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Viva Varda!
A pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by Hollywo...
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Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution i...
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Pictures of Europe
What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures...
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Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments
18 years after the making of the film "Vagabond", director Agnès Varda created this documentary whic...
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Ulysse
At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès Vard...
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The Invention of Chris Marker
A desktop documentary about the online afterlife of the late French filmmaker, Chris Marker....
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La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the succe...
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You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...
Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinemath...
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Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu...
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The 3 Lives of Agnès
The 3 lives of Agnès Varda: photographer, filmmaker and visual artist....
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A Visual History with Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda shares her career and life story on the eve of receiving her Honorary Oscar in 2017: fro...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967
Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed 42nd ...
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Harumi
In the hills of Los Angeles the reclusive, stylish and enigmatic 96-year-old Harumi Taniguchi spent ...
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The So-Called Caryatids
Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found th...
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Hello Cubans
A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after F...
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Far from Vietnam
In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympa...
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The First Interview
In the world's first media interview, shot in Paris in August 1886, the great photographer Nadar int...
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Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison
Documentary film about the iconic 1960s-era poet, songwriter, and vocalist of the Doors. Unlike prio...
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La Vie filmée
An issue of the television series La vie filmée, based on films by amateur filmmakers, and retracing...
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Women Behind the Camera
Reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood, from war zones to c...
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Shooting Women
Reveals the history of camerawomen around the world, celebrating not only the survival of pioneer wo...
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Where is Sara Gómez?
Born in 1943, Sara Gómez studied literature, piano, and Afro-Cuban ethnography before becoming the f...
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Two Street Artists
This profile of street artists Jérôme Mesnager and Miss Tic was shot by director Agnès Varda in Pari...
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The Birth of Children of Paradise
Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing...
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The Young Girls Turn 25
Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacqu...
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Great Directors
Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David...
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In Chris Marker's Studio
Two friends (and legendary French New Wave filmmakers) meet in real and virtual worlds....
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From Rooster to Donkey: Hands and Objects
In a survey of Agnès Varda's work in short films, the director has a conversation with Anne Huet and...
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The Story of an Old Lady
A short piece in which Agnes Varda revisits actress Marthe Jarnias, who plays the old aunt in her 19...
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Cinéast(e)s
Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man t...
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Faces Places
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely ...
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Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
Isabell Suba, ambitious up-and-coming director, has made it – one of her short films is in the line-...
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Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, t...
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Uncle Yanco
While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by he...
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The 8th Floor
On the 8th floor of the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Raymond Depardon's film features a minute of sil...
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Varda by Agnès
An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light on ...
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Quinqui Stars
QUINQUI STARS begins in the years of the transformations that took place between the 70s and the 80s...
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#JR
At 35 years old, photographer JR is a street art worldwide star. Discovered after the Paris’ suburb ...
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Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les P...
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Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda
A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHE...
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Lions Love
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie abo...
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Agnès Varda: Filmmaker, Photographer, Instagrammer
An artistic pioneer, Agnès Varda has never stopped looking for the next way to tell a story. Here th...
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The Truth About Charlie
Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwi...
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The Little Story of Gwen from French Brittany
In 2007, the French filmmaker and my dear friend Agnès Varda called me before coming to L.A. with a ...
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Vive les courts métrages : Agnès Varda présente les siens en DVD
Agnes Varda introduces a collection of her short films released to DVD....
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Henri Langlois vu par...
Thirteen filmmakers share personal reflections on Henri Langlois—the visionary founder of the Cinéma...
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Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema
The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different co...
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The Young Girls of Rochefort
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange ...
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One Sings, the Other Doesn't
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement...
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Women Reply
What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group...
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Nausicaa
A girl, whose father is from Greece, studies ancient art in France. The film was made for television...
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Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes
More than 40 years after making "Cléo de 5 à 7," Agnes Varda invites her star, two other cast member...
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Mur Murs
Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of t...
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Calling the Shots
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share ...
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Daguerréotypes
An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque ...
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Rue Daguerre in 2005
Agnes Varda revisits the storefronts and some of the local people she interviewed 30 years earlier i...
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The Vanishing Lion
An adventure of three characters: Clarisse, a psychic’s apprentice, Lazare, who works at the Parisia...
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More So-called Caryatids
A super short film to accompany the earlier documentary of the same name. A photoplay of various car...
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The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later
Agnès Varda’s follow-up to her acclaimed documentary THE GLEANERS AND I takes us deeper into the wor...
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Agnès Tells a Sad and Happy Story
Director Agnès Varda gathers some of her collaborators from JACQUOT DE NANTES to discuss their exper...
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Souvenirs and Evocations
A short program in which the participants describe how they fell in love with cinema....
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The World of Jacques Demy
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacq...
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Vagabond
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the fi...
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Jane B. by Agnès V.
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collabora...
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Jacquot
Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides to pu...
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Ydessa, the Bears and etc.
Ydessa Hendeles' exhibition entitled "The living and the Artificial" (consisting of works of art all...
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Some Widows of Noirmoutier
A documentary film directed by French Agnès Varda as an extension of the exhibition 'L'île et elle'....
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Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg"....
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Not Like Before
From January to November 2004, as a kind of carnet de voyage alongside our other activities, we aske...
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Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South
"The Poor Hunter of the South" is the title of the film Stavros Tornes never got to make, rightfully...
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Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view o...
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One Minute for One Image
TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn ...
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Jim Morrison: The End
Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, i...
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EXPRMNTL
Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Ca...
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Bread, Painting, Accordion
This short profile of Agnès Varda’s longtime bakery and accordion shop was shot by the filmmaker in ...
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Documenteur
After separating from the father of her son, a young French woman tries to find lodging and a fresh ...
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Tribute to Zgougou the Cat
A short tribute to Zgougou, Varda’s cat who was given to her by Sabine Mamou....
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Musique et Travellings
Director Agnes Varda and composer Joanna Brusdowicz discuss the music they created for Varda's film ...
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Agnes V. by Jane B.
Actor Jane Birkin talks about her friendship with director Agnes Varda, and about their work on 'Jan...
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Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli
Film director Agnès Varda reflects on the production of ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS, and presents a b...
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Daguerre-plage
Film director Agnes Varda captures the creation of a beach in front of her home in Rue Daguerre, for...
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Americano
A real estate agent from Paris arrives in Los Angeles to settle his late mother's estate, but a foun...
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All the World's Memory
A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processe...
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a Nathalie Sarraute
A short by Agnés Varda that includes excerpts from an interview on the France Culture radio show “La...
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La chanson 'Lola'
Michel Legrand, Agnès Varda, and Anouk Aimee share the story behind the song they created for Jacque...
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Agnès parle du Bonheur
In this interview from 1998, director Agnès Varda discusses her ideas behind 'Le bonheur' and how it...
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Le Bonheur? Réponses des Fontenaisiens
Agnès Varda and her crew stroll through the streets of Fontenay-aux-Roses asking a number of the tow...
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Bonheur: nom propre ou concept
Director Agnès Varda looks at definitions of happiness put forth by great writers....
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Mag Bodard, un destin
Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005....
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Behind the Artist: Andy Warhol, an American Prophet
This documentary cracks open the meticulously constructed façade of Andy Warhol, exposing the comple...
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Trapézistes et voltigeurs
This 2009 featurette, directed by Agnès Varda, gives an inside look into how her team set up THE BEA...
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Agnès Varda tourne...
In Noirmoutier, Agnès Varda shoots her eighth film, Les Créatures, starring Catherine Deneuve, under...
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In Her Own Words
This visual essay, produced in 2023, builds upon rare radio interviews that Chantal Akerman gave in ...
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