A Woman's Reply: A Short Introduction to Agnes Varda
Thursday July 16th - 7PM
Bluestockings
172 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002
To celebrate the release of Agnes Varda's latest feature, The Beaches of Agnes, playing Film Forum July 1st through 14th, we will present a program of 7 of Varda's short films. The films span 25 years and utilize such genres as memoir; essay; silent cinema pastiche; radical travelogue; and feminist documentary. Varda is a member of the so-called “Left Bank” group of filmmakers (along with Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, Marguerite Duras, and Alain Robbe-Grillet), simultaneously more literary and political than their “New Wave” contemporaries.
--L'opera Mouffe [Diary of a Pregnant Woman] (1958, 16 minutes)
--Les fiances du pont Mac Donald (1961, 5 minutes)
--Salut les cubains (Greetings, Cubans) (1963, 28 minutes)
--Elsa la rose (Elsa the Rose) (1965, 20 minutes)
--Response de femmes: Notre corps, notre sexe (The Response of Women: Our Body, Our Sex) (1975, 8 minutes)
--Plaisir d'amour en Iran (The Pleasure of Love in Iran) (1976, 6 minutes)
--Les dites cariatides (The So-Called Caryatids) (1984, 12 minutes)
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 85 minutes | Digital Projection
(All of Agnes Varda's short films are available on region-2 DVD directly from her, via her Cine-Tamaris label. The 2DVD set Varda tous courts (2007) includes English subtitles for all the films. Select titles are also available as bonus features on the Criterion Collection's 4 by Agnes Varda set (2008), which collects their single-disc editions of La Pointe Courte (1956), Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), Le bonheur (1965), and Vagabond (1985).)