Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.

Agns Varda, whose unique cinematic vision since the 1950s has earned her a loyal following of enthusiastic cinephiles around the world, and the iconic photographer/muralist JR, boasting over a million followers on Instagram, have more in common than one might imagine. Both share a lifelong passion for images and how they are created, displayed, and shared. Agns chose to explore her passion through

Agnès Varda's follow-up to her acclaimed documentary 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.

A documentary on Paris’ caryatids, the female nude or seminude statues that can be found in all kinds of architectural elements, such as architraves, friezes, and balconies. Accompanied by the poetry of Baudelaire and the music of Offenbach.

A documentary about the late Jacques Demy, man and cineaste, by his widow, filmmaker Agnes Varda.

Opening the doors of her universe as a storyteller, Agnès Varda revisits, with her customary inventiveness, her inspirations and work. A touching self portrait providing an insight into her oeuvre and how she set out to reinvent cinema.

Posed the question “What is a woman?,” Agnès Varda responds with this provocative, polemical short film — encapsulating an argument propounded in second-wave feminism, after Simone de Beauvoir’s Manifeste des 343, and after the campaign for legalized abortion in France.

Always one to break new ground, Agnès Varda put together what is simply one of the greatest documentaries of all time. Warm, generous, and very human, this late-career triumph showcases her self-reflexive filming and constant hunt for raw material, finding beauty in the most unexpected of places.

A recital becomes part of the French culture. Twenty-five years later, the performers return to the village where it was first launched.

The much-anticipated follow up to Agnes Varda's The Beaches of Agnes, From Here to There is a five-part documentary series that chronicles the peerless and indefatigable director's travels around the world, meeting friends, artists and filmmakers, for an expansive view of the contemporary art scene. Features interviews with Chris Marker, Manoel de Oliveira, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and many more.

Filmmaker Agnès Varda presents a photographic exploration of Cuba, set in 1963.

Amid the floating, make-shift homes of Sausalito, San Francisco’s “aquatic suburbia,” Agnès Varda locates a long-lost uncle, and a whole new way of life comes tumbling forth. An alternative look at the Bay Area’s infamous Summer of Love, Varda’s short glimmers with psychedelic and utopian promise.