Irish Film Institute -IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2024: AGNÈS VARDA SHORT FILMS PROGRAMME

IFI FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2024: AGNÈS VARDA SHORT FILMS PROGRAMME

We are delighted to present a unique selection of four beautifully restored short films by Agnès Varda at this year’s festival. They will screen prior to some of the new films in the main programme, so keep an eye out! This programme is organised with the support of MK2 Films (Paris) and Curzon Films (London), and our deep gratitude and thanks go to them.

For 70 years, Agnès Varda (1928–2019) produced a diverse and personal body of work, traversing themes of feminism and the margins. Her journey is one of iconoclastic photographer, filmmaker and multimedia artist fundamentally open to the world around her, and attuned to her times. Her formation as a photographer defined her work as a filmmaker, working between the distinct framework and boundaries of documentary and narrative/fiction cinema. A founder of the French New Wave announced by her beautiful and modern debut feature, La Pointe Courte (1955), Varda is one of few women of her generation to have made a career as a director, and her long career and remarkable body of work enshrine her as a leading and influential figure.

Notes by Marie-Pierre Richard.

ALONG THE COAST (DU CÔTÉ DE LA CÔTE)

26 mins • France • 1958 • Digital • Subtitled

A sightseeing and documentary tour along the French Riviera.

Screening with The Many Lives of Édouard Louis on Saturday 16th (12.00).

 

WOMEN REPLY (RÉPONSES DE FEMMES)

8 mins • France • 1975 • Digital • Subtitled

What does it mean to be a woman? Our bodies, our sex.

Screening with Suspended Time on Sunday 17th (12.30).

 

ULYSSE

22 mins • France • 1982 • Digital • Subtitled

A goat, a child and a naked man on a beach. A photograph taken by Agnès Varda in 1954.

Screening with Viva Varda! on Monday 18th (20.40).

 

SALUT LES CUBAINS

30 mins • France • 1963 • Digital • Black & White • Subtitled

Four years after Fidel Castro came to power, Varda brought back 1,800 photos from Cuba and turned them into an educational and entertaining documentary.

Screening with Jean-Luc Godard Shorts ‘Scénarios’ on Sunday 24th (12.10).

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