• Uncle Yanco

  • Tribute to Zgougou

  • Agnès Varda—Pier Paolo Pasolini—New York—1967

  • Black Panthers

  • La réponse de femmes



Agnès Varda Shorts, Program 2



Agnès Varda’s daughter, Rosalie Varda, helped with the posthumous completion of a very precious film her mother made with the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini at the time of the 1966 New York Film Festival. A snapshot of Bay Area hippiedom in full flower, Uncle Yanco is a portrait of Varda’s relative, Sausalito artist Jean Varda (to whom the filmmaker was introduced by former PFA curator and film producer Tom Luddy). The film’s images are as vibrant as Yanco’s paintings and the man himself. An important document of a different facet of Bay Area culture, Black Panthers depicts rallies in Oakland demanding Huey Newton’s release from prison and features activists, including Stokely Carmichael, Kathleen Cleaver, and Newton. La réponse de femmes is a feminist “ciné-tract,” a series of frontal tableaux in response to the question, What does it mean to be a woman? In Plaisir d’amour en Iran, filmed in Isfahan, Iran, Varda considers the relationship between eros and architecture, sacred and profane. For Ulysse she interviews the subjects of a photograph she took nearly three decades earlier. And with Les dites cariatides, Varda contemplates the sculpted women who support doorways and lintels along the streets of Paris, invoking Charles Baudelaire’s “dream of stone.” Tribute to Zgougou is a lovely example of the highly personal and intimate films Varda made through the years.

Films in this Screening

Agnès Varda—Pier Paolo Pasolini—New York—1967

Agnès Varda, France, 2022

Varda’s daughter, Rosalie Varda, helped with the posthumous completion of a very precious film her mother made with the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1966 at the time of the New York Film Festival.

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • French
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 4 mins
source
  • Ciné-tamaris

Uncle Yanco
(Oncle Yanco)

Agnès Varda, United States, 1967

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • French
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 20 mins
source
  • Janus Films

Black Panthers

Agnès Varda, United States, 1968

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 30 mins
source
  • Janus Films

La réponse de femmes
(Women’s Answer)

Agnès Varda, France, 1975

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • French
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 8 mins
source
  • Janus Films

Plaisir d’amour en Iran

Agnès Varda, France, 1976

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • French
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 6 mins
source
  • Janus Films

Ulysse

Agnès Varda, France, 1983

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • French
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 22 mins
source
  • Janus Films

Les dites cariatides

Agnès Varda, France, 1984

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • French
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 12 mins
source
  • Janus Films

Tribute to Zgougou

Agnès Varda, France, 2002

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • French
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • Digital
  • 2 mins
source
  • Janus Films

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