Future Varda

Future Varda
Author: Rebecca J Deroo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-04-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781478021193

This special issue recognizes the work and legacy of Agnès Varda (1928-2019), a Belgian-born film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist whose work was part of the French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the wake of Varda's passing in March 2019, contributors offer reflections on the continued relevance of her work. Until the end of her life, Varda was engaged with feminism, ethics, politics, and the representation of women in the film industry. Rather than focusing on Varda's most famous films, the contributors to this issue consider aspects of her oeuvre that have contemporary relevance and those that point to the future: films, art installations, and photographs that have received less scholarly attention; her political activism; her role as manager of her own production company; and her Instagram presence. By emphasizing these often-overlooked elements of Varda's creative output, the contributors reveal the depth of her artistic legacy and demonstrate how vastly important and interconnected her entire body of work is. Contributors Dominique Bluher, Nadine Boljkovac, Kelley Conway, Rebecca J. DeRoo, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, Homay King, Matt St. John, Emma Wilson

The Art of the Project

The Art of the Project
Author: Johnnie Gratton
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781571816498

The idea of the 'project' crosses generic, disciplinary and cultural frontiers. At a time when writers and artists are increasingly describing their practices as 'projects', remarkably little critical attention has been paid to the actual idea of the 'project'. This collection of essays responds to an urgent need by suggesting a framework for evaluating the notion of the project in the light of various modernist and postmodernist cultural practices, drawn mainly but not exclusively from the French-speaking domain. The overview offered by this volume promises to makes an original and thought-provoking contribution to contemporary literary, artistic and cultural criticism.

The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda

The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda
Author: Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2022-03-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1350240915

Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda outlines a sustainable legacy for the celebrated director and visual artist. Over nine chapters, it unpacks how creation, connection, and environment form the core of Varda's artistry, which centers foremost on relationships with her family, with other artists, even with passersby she would meet in her travels around the world. Also celebrating her feminist legacy, the chapters cover a wide range, from the classic Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) to documentaries The Beaches of Agnès (2008) and Faces Places (2017) as well as selected art installations. The book's final section is dedicated to teaching Varda's work; here, ten scholars from around the world consider how Varda's art and feminist pedagogies offer unique ways to bring crucial concepts into the classroom. By seeking a sustainable praxis to discuss and teach Varda's work, and by making pedagogical concerns an explicit part of this approach, this book argues that Varda's insights about the nature of creative work will inspire new generations of viewers and audiences.

The Cinema of Agnès Varda

The Cinema of Agnès Varda
Author: Delphine Benezet
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2014-05-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0231850611

Agnès Varda, a pioneer of the French New Wave, has been making radical films for over half a century. Many of these are considered by scholars, filmmakers, and audiences alike, as audacious, seminal, and unforgettable. This volume considers her production as a whole, revisiting overlooked films like Mur, Murs/Documenteur (1980–81), and connecting her cinema to recent installation work. This study demonstrates how Varda has resisted norms of representation and diktats of production. It also shows how she has elaborated a personal repertoire of images, characters, and settings, which all provide insight on their cultural and political contexts. The book thus offers new readings of this director's multifaceted rêveries, arguing that her work should be seen as an aesthetically influential and ethically-driven production where cinema is both a political and collaborative practice, and a synesthetic art form.

The Facilitator

The Facilitator
Author: Imran Dokadia
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2024-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In an unsuspecting town, Ihfaaz, the mastermind of India’s vast Hawala network, is ambushed and shot. No one knows about the attack, but Ihfaaz harbors a secret—he was once Ahsan, a man with a past buried deep beneath layers of deceit. Now, his past seems to be clawing its way back to haunt him. But why is N.E.S.T., the country’s premier intelligence agency, so invested in the well-being of a Hawala operator? Ihfaaz is not just any criminal; he’s the kingpin of a money laundering empire worth thousands of crores. A problem-solver for the rich and powerful, he’s known for navigating the trickiest of situations with ease. To earn his favor is a privilege; to do his bidding is an honor. As everyone anxiously watches his next move, the question looms: Can the man known as The Facilitator keep his empire from crumbling, or will his hidden past finally catch up to him?

Female Agencies and Subjectivities in Film and Television

Female Agencies and Subjectivities in Film and Television
Author: Diğdem Sezen
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3030561003

This volume provides an overview of the landscape of mediated female agencies and subjectivities in the last decade. In three sections, the book covers the films of women directors, television shows featuring women in lead roles, and the representational struggles of women in cultural context, with a special focus on changes in the transformative power of narratives and images across genres and platforms. This collection derives from the editors’ multi-year experiences as scholars and practitioners in the field of film and television. It is an effort that aims to describe and understand female agencies and subjectivities across screen narratives, gather scholars from around the world to generate timely discussions, and inspire fellow researchers and practitioners of film and television.

Flâneuse

Flâneuse
Author: Lauren Elkin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0374156042

An exhilarating, gender-bending walk through the lives of women who are enlivened by cities

Agnès Varda

Agnès Varda
Author: Agnès Varda
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1617039209

Collected interviews with the French filmmaker who is sometimes called the "Mother of the New Wave"