Agnès Varda
Birthday: Born in 1928-05-30 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
Deathday: 2019-03-29
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.
TV Credits
Un film et son époque
Character: Self
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Agnès de ci de là Varda
Character: Self / Narrator (voice)
Agnès Varda takes us on a journey of discovery as she travels the globe—from Stockholm to St. Petersburg, Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City to Los Angeles—meeting with friends, artists, and fellow filmmakers....
Leçon de Cinéma
Character: Self
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Varda par Agnès
Character: Self
An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls “cine-writing,” traveling from Rue Daguerre in Paris to Los Angeles and Beijing....
Square
Character: Self
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Cinépanorama
Character: Self
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Movie Credits
The World in Shots
Character: Self
"Il mondo a scatti" is a film that intertwines images of today and yesterday, still images and moving images through a dialogue between two people who reflect on the visible and invisible things of the world: Cecilia Mangini, unstoppable ninety years old, photographer, documentary maker, screenwriter is filmed by Paolo Pisanelli, photographer, director, curator of cultural events....
The Gleaners and I
Character: Self
Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism....
Viva Varda!
Character: Self
Director Agnès Varda talks with LIONS LOVE (. . . AND LIES) star Viva about their work together, in this long-lost interview conducted for French television in 1970....
Janela da Alma
Character: Self
Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see themselves, how they see others and how they perceive the world. Unusual images, of burning trees or empty deserts, link the interviews, which vary from deep to funny to poetic....
The Beaches of Agnès
Character: Self
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy....
Viva Varda!
Character: Self (archive footage)
A pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by Hollywood in her own lifetime, Agnès Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers. With movies like Cléo de 5 à 7, Le Bonheur, Sans toit ni loi, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, she created a quirky, open to the world, sensitive to the disenfranchised, often silly body of work. Always one finger on the pulse, she shook everything up, including cinema itself which sh...
Pictures of Europe
Character: Self
What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between American independent and Hollywood movies and films from European directors. Featuring luminary iconoclasts from European cinema such as Agnes Varda, Bernardo Bertolucci and Pedro Almodovar, as well as American counterpoints from Paul Schrader, and those who have crossed back and forth, such as Paul Verhoeven...
Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments
Character: Narrator / Self
18 years after the making of the film "Vagabond", director Agnès Varda created this documentary which includes interviews with the cast....
Ulysse
Character: Self - Interviewer / Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès Varda. The goat was dead, the child was named Ulysses, and the man was naked. Starting from this frozen image, the film explores the real and the imaginary....
The Invention of Chris Marker
Character: self
A desktop documentary about the online afterlife of the late French filmmaker, Chris Marker....
La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
Character: Self
Made for Cinéastes de notre temps series. In 1964, several French New Wave auteurs discuss the success and crisis of the wave. Featuring Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rozier, Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Jean Rouch, and many others....
You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinematheque....
Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
Character: Self (archive footage)
She worked with the world’s greatest actors and directors: Buñuel, Mastroianni, Lellouche, Depardieu... The film guides us throughout her career with the filmmakers with whom she invented herself not to be a “cold blonde actress”, thanks to great interviews of many artists who crossed her path....
The 3 Lives of Agnès
Character: Self
The 3 lives of Agnès Varda: photographer, filmmaker and visual artist....
A Visual History with Agnès Varda
Character: Herself
Agnès Varda shares her career and life story on the eve of receiving her Honorary Oscar in 2017: from her childhood and early influences to her life with Jacques Demy, and of course a lifetime of images, her unique artistic journey as a photographer, filmmaker and visual artist....
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967
Character: Self (voice)
Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed 42nd Street in NYC in 1967, filming crowds of passers-by to the beat of the Doors. Recovered from the French director's boxes, with images of Varda, Pasolini and New York. Pasolini is shown walking in the Big Apple (where he went to present 'Hawks and Sparrows')....
Harumi
Character: Self
In the hills of Los Angeles the reclusive, stylish and enigmatic 96-year-old Harumi Taniguchi spent decades painting, writing poetry and dancing in her home designed by architect Richard Neutra....
The So-Called Caryatids
Character: Narrator
Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc....
Agnes Varda : Leçon de cinéma
Character: Agnès Varda
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Hello Cubans
Character: Narrator (voice)
A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years after Fidel Castro came to power. This black & white documentary explores their socialist culture and society while making use of 1500 pictures (out of 4000!) the filmmaker took while on the island....
Far from Vietnam
Character: Narrator (segment "Flash Back") (voice)
In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War....
Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison
Character: Self (archive footage)
Documentary film about the iconic 1960s-era poet, songwriter, and vocalist of the Doors. Unlike prior Morrison media, Before the End’s focus is on the humanity behind the hype, including Jim’s formative years. The documentary features exclusive interviews with his brother, Andy Morrison; cousins Ellen Edwards and David Backer; high school swim coach, Ash Jones; college roommate, Bryan Gates; Doors-era lovers Judy Huddleston and Anne Moore; Doors booking agent, Todd Schiffman; Doors roadie, Garet...
La Vie filmée
Character:
An issue of the television series La vie filmée, based on films by amateur filmmakers, and retracing here the life of the French between 1946 and 1953. The images shot in the immediate post-war period bear witness to the difficulties of resuming life daily. Confronting individuals with their personal archives nearly thirty years later, the film nostalgically questions the gap created between intimate memory and empirical memory (documents)....
Where is Sara Gómez?
Character: Self
Born in 1943, Sara Gómez studied literature, piano, and Afro-Cuban ethnography before becoming the first female Cuban filmmaker. A woman of great intelligence, independence and generosity, she was a revolutionary filmmaker with intersecting concerns about the Afro-Cuban community and the value of its cultural traditions, women's issues, and the treatment of the marginalized sectors of society....
La Mélangite
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Unfinished film project from Agnès Varda (c. 1960)...
Two Street Artists
Character: Narrator (voice)
This profile of street artists Jérôme Mesnager and Miss Tic was shot by director Agnès Varda in Paris between 2006 and 2012....
The Young Girls Turn 25
Character: Self
Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacques Demy's film The Young Girls of Rochefort....
Great Directors
Character: Self
Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film documents Ismailos' voyage of discovering the creative personalities behind the camera....
In Chris Marker's Studio
Character: Self
Two friends (and legendary French New Wave filmmakers) meet in real and virtual worlds....
From Rooster to Donkey: Hands and Objects
Character: Self
In a survey of Agnès Varda's work in short films, the director has a conversation with Anne Huet and Alain Berlaga....
The Story of an Old Lady
Character: Self
A short piece in which Agnes Varda revisits actress Marthe Jarnias, who plays the old aunt in her 1985 film "Vagabond"....
Faces Places
Character: Self
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship....
Men Show Movies & Women Their Breasts
Character: Self (uncredited)
Isabell Suba, ambitious up-and-coming director, has made it – one of her short films is in the line-up of the most important film festival of the world! When she arrives at the 65. Cannes film festival, she has face the accomplished facts: David, her incompetent producer, has kindly sublet their cosy joint apartment to other festival guests. The other bad news: There is not a single movie in the competition directed by a woman! This affirms Isabell’s qualms: The film business demands women to g...
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Character: Self
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered....
Chance Is the Best Assistant
Character: Self
An interview with Agnes Varda and JR....
Uncle Yanco
Character: Self
While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by her friend Tom Luddy, gets to know a relative she had never heard of before, Jean Varda, nicknamed "Yanco". This hitherto unknown uncle lives on a boat in Sausalito, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and loves life. The meeting is a very happy one....
The 8th Floor
Character: Self
On the 8th floor of the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Raymond Depardon's film features a minute of silence with eight artists and scientists: David Lynch, Patti Smith, William Eggleston, Takeshi Kitano, Ron Mueck, Jean Michel Alberola, Agnès Varda and Misha Gromov....
Varda by Agnès
Character: Self
An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls "cine-writing," traveling from Rue Daguerre in Paris to Los Angeles and Beijing....
Quinqui Stars
Character: Self (archive footage)
QUINQUI STARS begins in the years of the transformations that took place between the 70s and the 80s in the peripheral neighborhoods of Madrid that affected many young people and drove them towards delinquency....
#JR
Character: Self
At 35 years old, photographer JR is a street art worldwide star. Discovered after the Paris’ suburb riots of 2005 for his portraits of young people, his collages have adorned the galleries of the Louvre, the Pompidou Center, the Pantheon, the National Assembly ever since … From New York to Shanghai, and the Israeli-Palestinian wall to the US-Mexico border, he has stuck or exhibited giant photos on the walls of dozens of countries and associated hundreds of thousands of unknown artists with his p...
Michel Legrand, sans demi-mesure
Character: Self (archive footage)
This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director Jacques Demy....
Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda
Character: Self
A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T. It includes interviews with Varda and the lead actors in the film....
Lions Love
Character: Agnès (uncredited)
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood....
Agnès Varda: Filmmaker, Photographer, Instagrammer
Character: Self
An artistic pioneer, Agnès Varda has never stopped looking for the next way to tell a story. Here the 90-year-old explains how Instagram, with a majority of users in the 18-24 age range, followed photography and film as her medium of choice....
The Truth About Charlie
Character: The Widow Hyppolite
Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return to Paris, she finds that both her apartment and her bank account have been emptied, and her husband has been murdered. The more Reggie learns, the more she realizes the scope of the puzzle which she must solve to protect herself from ever-increasing danger....
The Little Story of Gwen from French Brittany
Character: Self
In 2007, the French filmmaker and my dear friend Agnès Varda called me before coming to L.A. with a question: would I agree to let her film my L.A. story? The video you are about to watch is the story of our first encounter in Paris in 1996 and in the years since, how our shared reverence for cinema formed the bonds of an everlasting friendship, and how the Cinematheque became like home....
Henri Langlois vu par...
Character: Self
Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him....
Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema
Character: Self
The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat (both from France), have been making films for decades in a conscious effort to provide an alternative to the male filmmaking model; others, such as Moufida Tlatli (Tunisia) and Carine Adler (England), are relative newcomers to directing, and their approaches seem more personal and less political. The film as a whole man...
The Young Girls of Rochefort
Character: Music-Loving Nun (uncredited)
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris one month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years ago. They are looking for love, looking for each other, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close......
One Sings, the Other Doesn't
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker - despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' lives, in the process affirmi...
Women Reply
Character: Self (voice)
What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda's camera....
Nausicaa
Character: Self
A girl, whose father is from Greece, studies ancient art in France. The film was made for television but never broadcast for political reasons related to its portrayal of Greeks. A work print was screened in Belgium in 1971, and the film is now available in reconstructed form....
Cléo from 5 to 7: Remembrances and Anecdotes
Character: Self
More than 40 years after making "Cléo de 5 à 7," Agnes Varda invites her star, two other cast members, and her assistant directors to look back. She takes us through the film, from opening scene to the end, visiting its Paris locales, placing her aged actors in the same spots, telling stories, and listening to others' reflections on the making of the film. She and they talk about making a film on a low budget, its showing at Cannes, and trying to fix a problem in the last shot. Her assistant dir...
Mur Murs
Character: Self / Narrator
Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures. She casts a curious eye on graffiti and photorealism, roller disco & gang violence, evangelical Christians, Hare Krishnas, artists, angels and ordinary Angelenos....
Calling the Shots
Character: Self
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts....
Daguerréotypes
Character: Narrator
An intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home for more than 50 years....
Rue Daguerre in 2005
Character: Self
Agnes Varda revisits the storefronts and some of the local people she interviewed 30 years earlier in Daguerréotypes (1976)....
The Vanishing Lion
Character: La Lectrice du Parc / Narrator (uncredited)
An adventure of three characters: Clarisse, a psychic’s apprentice, Lazare, who works at the Parisian catacombs, and the bronze statue of a lion at the Denfert-Rochereau (in the 14th arrondissement). Clarisse and Laraze meet daily, but one day Lazare disappears and the lion disappears as well!...
More So-called Caryatids
Character: Narrator
A super short film to accompany the earlier documentary of the same name. A photoplay of various caryatids to be found in Paris....
The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later
Character: Narrator
Agnès Varda’s follow-up to her acclaimed documentary THE GLEANERS AND I takes us deeper into the world of those who find purpose and beauty in the refuse of society, revisiting many of the original film’s subjects....
Agnès Tells a Sad and Happy Story
Character: Self
Director Agnès Varda gathers some of her collaborators from JACQUOT DE NANTES to discuss their experiences making the film, as well as show Varda wove her grief over the loss of her husband, Jacques Demy, into other projects....
Souvenirs and Evocations
Character: Self
A short program in which the participants describe how they fell in love with cinema....
The World of Jacques Demy
Character: Self
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes....
Vagabond
Character: (uncredited)
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise....
Jane B. by Agnès V.
Character: Self (uncredited)
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon....
Jacquot
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
Jacquot Demy, the son of a garage owner and a hairdresser, is fascinated by cinema and decides to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker by any means necessary....
Ydessa, the Bears and etc.
Character: Narrator (voice)
Ydessa Hendeles' exhibition entitled "The living and the Artificial" (consisting of works of art all comprising a photograph of living persons in the company of one or several teddy bears) had puzzled Agnès Varda so much that she decided to go to Toronto where the artist lives and interview her. In front of Agnes Varda's DV camera, Ydessa tells about the singularity of her artistic approach. She also expresses herself about the Holocaust, which both her parents survived....
The Widows of Noirmoutier
Character: Self
A documentary film directed by French Agnès Varda as an extension of the exhibition 'L'île et elle'. The installation 'Les veuves de Noirmoutier' (or 'The Widows of Noirmoutier') had various women filmed by Varda, young and old, who spoke about their widowhood and their residence on the island of Noirmoutier. The film is a montage of these meetings, which are both simple and melancholic....
Once Upon a Time... The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Character: Self
Television documentary about the making of Jacques Demy's 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg"....
Not Like Before
Character: Self
From January to November 2004, as a kind of carnet de voyage alongside our other activities, we asked one and the same question of various people we met on our journeys, including friends: "Do you remember a moment in your life when something really changed?" We requested them to tell us a story to illustrate their reply, and we filmed them....
Stavros Tornes: The Poor Hunter of the South
Character: Self
"The Poor Hunter of the South" is the title of the film Stavros Tornes never got to make, rightfully featured alongside his name on this documentary by Stavros Kaplanidis ("Canteen", "Play it Again, Christos"). The film traces his imagery, listens for his whispers and infiltrates the memories of his closest friends, looking for clues in order to piece together the portrait of a filmmaker who made something out of nothing and stayed true to himself and his vision until the very end. Besides Tor...
150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement
Character: French Woman Talking
A Woman Watches People....
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Character: Self
Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene....
One Minute for One Image
Character: Narrator
TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn to them (in short one minute segments per image)...
Jim Morrison: The End
Character: Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, in the apartment of his girlfriend Pamela Courson. The chronicle of the last months of the life of the poet, singer and charismatic leader of the American band The Doors, one of the most influential in the history of rock....
EXPRMNTL
Character: herself
Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second ‘World Festival of Film and the Arts’ in 1949, organised in part by the Royal Cinematheque of Belgium. To celebrate cinema’s 50 year existence, they put together a side program showcasing the medium in all its shapes and forms: surrealist film, absolute film, dadaist films, abstract film,… The side program would soon become a festival in its own right: ‘EXPRM...
Documenteur
Character: Mur Murs Play Back (voice) (uncredited)
After separating from the father of her son, a young French woman tries to find lodging and a fresh start in L.A. for herself and her son....
Tribute to Zgougou the Cat
Character:
A short tribute to Zgougou, Varda’s cat who was given to her by Sabine Mamou....
Agnes V. by Jane B.
Character: Self (Archive Footage)
Actor Jane Birkin talks about her friendship with director Agnes Varda, and about their work on 'Jane B. Par Agnes V.' and Kung-Fu Master!'....
Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli
Character: Self
Film director Agnès Varda reflects on the production of ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS, and presents a brief on-set interview with actor Michel Piccoli...
Daguerre-plage
Character: Self
Film director Agnes Varda captures the creation of a beach in front of her home in Rue Daguerre, for the film 'The Beaches of Agnes'....
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
Character: Self (Archive Footage)
Preeminent West African curator and scholar Funmilayo Akechukwu’s magnum opus, The Resonance Field, leads her to the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, drawing a journalist into a journey that shatters her understanding of consciousness and time....
Americano
Character: Voice (Uncredited)
A real estate agent from Paris arrives in Los Angeles to settle his late mother's estate, but a found photograph sends him on an impromptu journey to Mexico to find a woman named Lola....
propos sur 'le bonheur'
Character:
Four intellectuals from various professions and backgrounds discuss their thoughts on Agnes Varda's LE BONHEUR as a film, and their thoughts on happiness as a concept....
Was Ist Kino ?
Character: Self (Archive Footage)
A "tribute" from Adam Bensoltane to his idols...