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Varda by Agnès

Thursday, Feb 27, 2020 7:00 PM
Presented by VTIFF
Host Sponsor: Main Street Landing
Directed and written by Agnès Varda
France | 2019 | Documentary | 120 mins
Film Source: Janus

Note: The film will be preceded by the short film Elegies, by Eiko Otake, John R.Killacky, and Brian Stevenson, 2019. See more information below.

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Varda by Agnès
The final film from the late, beloved Agnès Varda is a characteristically playful, profound, and personal summation of the director’s own brilliant career. At once impish and wise, she acts as our spirit guide on a free-associative tour through her six-decade artistic journey, shedding new light on her films, photography, and recent installation works while offering her one-of-a-kind reflections on everything from filmmaking to feminism to aging. Suffused with the people, places, and things she loved—Jacques Demy, cats, colors, beaches, heart-shaped potatoes—this wonderfully idiosyncratic work of imaginative autobiography is a warmly human, touchingly bittersweet parting gift from one of cinema’s most luminous talents.

Elegies | USA | 9 mins 23 seconds
Eiko Otake, John R.Killacky, and Brian Stevenson - a collaboration
Artist/Legislator John R. Killacky collaborates with choreographer Eiko Otake  to create intimate elegies to their dead mothers, austerely shot by cinematographer Brian Stevenson.