Agnès Varda. The Things We Leave Behind. 2004 4/6

http://www.egs.edu/ Agnès Varda, French director, photographer and filmmaker discussing and featuring the 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. Agnès Varda, lecturing about making and directing movies and films for television, theatre and cinema, and working as an artist, director, documentary filmmaker, a voice for the people featured in her videos. Public open video lecture for the faculty and students of the European Graduate School, Media and Communication Studies Department Program, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2004.

Agnès Varda (born May 30, 1928) is a French film director. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style.

Varda was born in Brussels, Belgium, to a Greek father and French mother. Her father's family were Greek refugees from Asia Minor. For her first film La Pointe courte (editing by Alain Resnais), she drew her inspiration from the region of Sète, where she grew up. Varda traveled from France to San Francisco and shot a quasi-surreal documentary film on her father's cousin, Jean Varda, titled Uncle Yanko.

For the 1985 documentary-style feature film Vagabond/Without Roof or Rule she received the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival.

Filmography
Year English Title French Title
1956 La Pointe Courte
1962 Cléo from 5 to 7 Cléo de 5 à 7
1965 Happiness Le Bonheur
1969 Lions Love Lions Love
1977 One Sings, the Other Doesn't L'Une chante, l'autre pas
1985 Vagabond Sans toit ni loi
1987 Kung-Fu Master Le Petit amour
1988 Jane B. for Agnes V. Jane B. par Agnès V.
1991Jacquot de Nantes
1995 A Hundred and One Nights Les Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma
2000 The Gleaners and I Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse
2002 The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse... deux ans après
2003 Le Lion volatil.
2004 Ydessa, les ours et etc.
2004 Cinévardaphoto
2004 Viennale '04-Trailer, Der
2005 Dites cariatides bis, Les
2005 Cléo de 5 à 7: souvenirs et anecdotes
2006 Quelques veuves de Noirmoutier

Public video open lecture for the faculty and students of the European Graduate School, Media and Communication Studies Department Program, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2004.

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