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Contours of Being: Agnès Varda
Film ScreeningArtscience Cinema: Contours of Being
Event Description
In Jane B. par Agnès V. (1988) and The So‑Called Caryatids (1984), Agnès Varda turns her camera toward the female body at moments when it has traditionally been held up as ideal: young, sculptural, and symbolically charged – only to gently undo them in her signature cinematic style.
Les Dites Cariatides (The So-Called Caryatids), 1984 by Agnès Varda
12min | Rating TBA | French with English subtitles
Varda turns her camera this time on the sculpted female neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, Fance, where she takes us on a playful tour of the female form in history and the image of women in collective memory.
Synopsis
Jane B. by Agnès V. (1988)
Made at a moment when Jane Birkin was widely regarded as having passed her youthful peak, Jane B. par Agnès V. deliberately dismantles the idea of a single anatomical or cultural ‘prime’.
Staging Birkin between roles, costumes, fantasies, and conversations, and often drifting between colourfully elaborate scenes and intimate exchanges, Varda conjures a new ideal grounded in self-ownership, play, and time.
