Agnès Varda - Videos
01/17/2010
Varda speaks about her political agenda, how a small but engaged audience can be more important than mass appeal, and the persistently central role of women in bringing about radical social transformation. (in French with simultaneous German translation)
Varda giving her readings, interpretations, reflections on various photographs by Juan Fontcuberta, Gladys, Bill Greene, and Marc Riboud, and others. Each section features a different photograph and is one minute long.
Length: 0:05:50
Agnès Varda speaks about her inspiration and motivation for her film "Les Plages d'Agnès" ; a journey across the beaches representing different stages in her life, from childhood, to the life she shared with husband Jacques Demy. A film which Varda calls both a love story, and sincere auto-portrait. (in French).
Length: 0:02:25
The trailer for Varda's film "The Beaches of Agnès" (Les Plages d'Agnès), awarded Best Documentary at the Cesar Awards (César du cinéma français).
Length: 0:03:37
Television portrait on Varda including interviews while she was visiting Perpignan with her new film, "Les Plages d'Agnès" .The video includes a brief biography, including her childhood with her French mother, and Greek Father, her travels, and the meeting her long-time husband Jacques Demy (now deceased), and her career as filmmaker. (in French)
Varda prsents her film Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse 2000 aka The Gleaners and I, a documentary about things we leave behind or throw away, the leftover, cleaning, what is left, what means picking, selecting, chosing and giving. Varda discusses her photography and her filmmaking process with regard to the two works.
Length: 0:10:57
Adorable short film from 2003, starring Julie Depardieu. Varda appears in the film at 3.36, reading a book.
Length: 0:06:08
a clip from Varda's film starring Jane Birkin, with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon. (in French)
Length: 0:03:14
Short film by Varda, starring Isabelle Adajani as herself. (in French)
Length: 0:05:39
Short film by Varda starring Ali Raffi & Valérie Mairesse, shot at the Shah Masjed, Esfehan. (French with English subtitles)
10/12/1969
Interview with Susan Sontag and Agnès Varda, Jack Kroll, on CBS-TV. Varda does not agree with her film "Lion's Love" being called grotesque, and describes it as being a film about stars, political stars, wannabe stars, Hollywood stars....
Length: 0:03:53
Clip from Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, directed by Agnès Varda and her husband Jacques Demy, nominated for an Oscar. Starring Catherine Deneuve. (in French, English subtitles)
Four years after Fidel Castro came to power, Agnes brought 1800 photos back from Cuba, and used them to make a documentary. (French, with English subtitles)
Length: 0:04:52
Varda's humorous black and white film with Jean-luc Godard and Anna Karina "Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald ou (Méfiez-vous des lunettes noires) " - "The Betrothed of MacDonald Bridge or ( don't trust the dark glasses) (French, with English subtitles).
"L'opéra-mouffe" (English title: "Diary of a Pregnant Woman"): a black and white film with footage of the Latin Quarter, on rue Mouffetard, in Paris, as well as still photography, and some surrealistic sequences. (no dialogue, with soundtrack)
05/19/1956
Length: 0:08:51
TV feature on Varda, including short clips from her early films "La Pointe Courte" (1954) , "L'opéra-mouffe (1958) and "Cléo de 5 à 7" (1962). in shich she describes her process, how she starts by filming small sketches and builds a larger a film around these.in French (subtitles in English)