• SCREENINGUnfiction: The Beaches of Agnes - Agnes Varda with a circus troupe of acrobats Image: Courtesy of The Cinema Guild. Unfiction: The Beaches of Agnes - Agnes Varda with a circus troupe of acrobats Image: Courtesy of The Cinema Guild.
  • SCREENINGUnfiction: The Beaches of Agnes - Agnes Varda in The Beaches of Agnes. Image: Courtesy of The Cinema Guild. Unfiction: The Beaches of Agnes - Agnes Varda in The Beaches of Agnes. Image: Courtesy of The Cinema Guild.
  • SCREENINGUnfiction: The Beaches of Agnes - Agnes Varda in The Beaches of Agnes. Image: Courtesy of The Cinema Guild. Unfiction: The Beaches of Agnes - Agnes Varda in The Beaches of Agnes. Image: Courtesy of The Cinema Guild.
  • SCREENINGUnfiction: The Beaches of Agnes - Agnes Varda in The Beaches of Agnes. Image: Courtesy of The Cinema Guild. Unfiction: The Beaches of Agnes - Agnes Varda in The Beaches of Agnes. Image: Courtesy of The Cinema Guild.
  • SCREENINGUnfiction: The Beaches of Agnes - Agnes Varda and her family in The Beaches of Agnes. Image: Courtesy of The Cinema Guild. Unfiction: The Beaches of Agnes - Agnes Varda and her family in The Beaches of Agnes. Image: Courtesy of The Cinema Guild.
  • SCREENINGUnfiction: The Beaches of Agnes - Agnes Varda surrounded by her production company, Cine Tamaris in The Beaches of Agnes. Image: Courtesy of The Cinema Guild. Unfiction: The Beaches of Agnes - Agnes Varda surrounded by her production company, Cine Tamaris in The Beaches of Agnes. Image: Courtesy of The Cinema Guild.
  • SCREENINGUnfiction: The Beaches of Agnes - Agnes Varda in The Beaches of Agnes. Image: Courtesy of The Cinema Guild. Unfiction: The Beaches of Agnes - Agnes Varda in The Beaches of Agnes. Image: Courtesy of The Cinema Guild.

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UNFICTION SERIES —
The Beaches of Agnès

Made as its auteur approached her 80th birthday, Agnès Varda's The Beaches of Agnès is a playful, elegiac autobiography in cinema by the “grandmother” of the French New Wave. Varda has created a living, moving collage in which clips from her earlier films are juxtaposed with images from her travels, projects, and relationships, and documentary realism gives way to dreamy montages and surrealist set pieces. Supporting players include Harrison Ford and fellow filmmaker Chris Marker, appearing in the guise of an orange cartoon cat. The result is a luminous meditation on Varda's life in film and on the art of film itself. Winner of a César (France's equivalent of the Oscar) for best documentary, the event will take place one year after EMPAC screened Varda's The Gleaners and I.

“An artist of undiminished vigor, curiosity and intelligence… The film sustains an unusual blend of gravity and playfulness, a mood at once ripe with experience and childlike in its capacity for wonder.”
— A. O. Scott, The New York Times

 

Curator: Emily Berçir Zimmerman

Tickets are REQUIRED for this event

Unfiction:

Unfiction is a series of documentary films that turn truth into something other than fact, using poetry and imagination, rather than transparency and objectivity. These filmmakers question the very notion of authenticity, and disobey the typical documentary filmmaking practices; instead they stage their own realities on location, employing techniques such as reenactment, personal voice-overs and special effects.

Agnès Varda:

With her 1956 film, La Pointe Courte, Agnès Varda introduced many of the techniques that would come to be associated with the French New Wave. Her other films include Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Lions Love (1969), One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977), and The Gleaners and I (2000). In 2009, she was made Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur.

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SPRING 2010 Unfiction Series:

Man on Wire —

The Beaches of Agnès —

Megunica —