In Chris Marker’s Studio by Agnès Varda is a rare and beautiful moment in cinema where two friends — who happen to be pioneering, legendary filmmakers from the French New Wave — meet in real life and in a virtual world. In the film, which was shot at two points between 2009-2011, Agnès Varda visits Chris Marker in his studio, a few years before his passing. She admires his magnificent mess, snooping around for details that reveal “the hidden side of Marker’s work”: a labyrinth of wires and computer equipment, a collection of images, magazines, and books, and — of course — cats. The film takes on a wonderful surrealist turn when Varda creates an avatar to meet Marker’s avatar in the online virtual world of Second Life.
Chris Marker was an enigmatic person and artist who would rather have his work speak for itself. Camera shy, he created a larger-than-life cardboard cat named Guillaume to hide behind. Varda and Marker met in 1954, as Marker was a friend of Alain Resnais, who at the time was editing Varda’s first feature La Pointe Courte. It was because they knew each other for so long that Marker allowed Varda to enter his private workspace with her camera. In the film, Marker remains shy and unsure about Varda’s idea of shooting his studio: “Why are you filming my mess? You are going to dishonor me.” To which Varda replies, with her usual enthusiasm, “I find it beautiful that one is surrounded by what he does!” It is wonderful to see the workplace of great minds. We do not see Marker, but we hear his voice — and what a treat it is to hear him, speaking of how he hates waiting in lines, and how happy he is to be able to read a poem by Apollinaire while doing so, because he has poetry saved on his phone. Varda’s camera follows her eye, jumping from one detail to another, discovering a new treasure in every corner. We feel as if we are right by her shoulder.

In Chris Marker's Atelier.mkv

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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. (the title translates as ‘the so-called Caryatides’). As one might expect from Varda, the film is strongly feminist, as she draws out wider symbolic and social implications from these images of women holding up huge weights, both then and now, but it is playfully so. The film becomes much sadder when she talks about Baudelaire, whose Paris these ladies grace; his poetry, success, notoriety; his subsequent physical decline, loss of voice and death. These statues are now so familiar that they are barely noticed, but in mapping the mental geography of a city, foreign viewers will be ravished by this Rameau-soundtracked exploration of a forgotten Paris.

	
Les.dites.cariatides.1984.1080p.BluRay.x264.mkv

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Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists, and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene.

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Agnès Varda is the coolest lady, the warmest soul, and one of my very favourite artists. It’s a downright blessing to get to spend so much time with her, traveling vicariously, appreciating art and other artists.

Many standout moments, almost too many to mention, like her dancing Second Life with Chris Marker or the potato costume she wore (which doesn’t go unnoticed)! My favourite part, which perhaps illustrates Varda best, is when she herself is being interviewed and is quickly more interested in the interviewer than talking about herself.

Joyfully, there is so much Varda here, in addition to the great many others she visits and brings into the project. Her deep fascination with everyone, (every cat), and everything highlights what a unique personality she is, and From Here to There is a five-episode celebration of that.

A travel doc series in anyone else’s hands, but with Varda, of course, it’s much more profound, exciting, and generous, venturing closer to personal cinema.

Merci, Agnès!

Agnes.de.ci.de.la.Varda.2011.S01E01.576p.BDRip.AC3.x264-trand.mkv

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Agnès Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers. For the first time ever, this documentary provides a counter-shot through interviews and previously unseen archives materials.

Viva Varda 2023.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/58352851950A5F3/Viva_Varda_2023.mkv

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Serendipity began as a book, published on the occasion of Prune Nourry’s solo show at the Guimet National Asian Art Museum in Paris in 2017. The French-born, New York-based artist has spent the majority of her artistic career creating work that deals with women’s bodies and female fertility. A recent breast cancer diagnosis led Nourry to create Serendipity-now in the form of a stunning first-person documentary-which captures the subsequent evolution of her body, her work, her soul, and her mind. This impassioned, beautiful film embodies the artist’s belief that everything is connected, coincidence is an illusion, and “the essentials to life really are health, love, and art.”

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Anna Masecchia wrote:
With her 16mm camera in hand, the optical prosthesis of a 20th-century flâneuse, Agnès Varda filmed 42nd Street in 1967, shooting a crowdof passersby to the beat of The Doors. Pier Paolo Pasolini is with her, getting lost in the lights, bodies, faces and chaos of a crowded and multicultural New York. Opening in soft focus and closing on Pasolini’s blurred face, the images shot in a direct style and without audio are merged with a dense dialogue between the two artists and intellectuals, which was recorded later. Prompted by Varda, Pasolini reflects on the relationship between reality and fiction, the Christian figurative tradition and the function of audiovisual language in contemporary society. All of which is enhanced by the audio-visual décalage that simultaneously reveals the camera as a device while emphasising the real and political information of the images, which emerges from the background and comes into the foreground. In a matter of minutes,Varda’s art captures Pasolini talking about himself and the essence of cinema as a whole, which for both is an expression of reality itself.

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After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate the city. Bursting with color and vitality, Mur Murs is as much an invigorating study of community and diversity as it is an essential catalog of unusual public art.

Agnes Varda - (1981) Mural Murals.mkv

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