- Description:
- DVD - Region free. viewing copy. 2 videodiscs of 2.
color and b/w.
fullscreen. sound.
- Notes:
- Supplemental features: booklet; UNE MINUTE POUR UNE IMAGE (14 mini-films, each lasting about 90 seconds); DU COQ A L’ANE (DES MAINS ET DES OBJETS).
Titles
+ O Saisons, O Chateaux
- Alternate Title:
- Castles Through The Ages
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Films de la Pleiade
- Running Time:
- Short. 21 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1957
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. In French with English subtitles.
A visit through the castles in the Loire Valley following the chronological order of construction.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Plaisir d’Amour En Iran
- Alternate Title:
- Pleasure of Love in Iran
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Ciné-Tamaris
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1976
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Romance, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. In French with optional English subtitles.
A couple daydreams in the Great King Mosque at Ispahan.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Du Côté de la Côte
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Argos-Films
- Running Time:
- Short. 24 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1958
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Satire, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. In French with optional English subtitles.
A satirical touristic documentary exploration of the Riviera. Music by Georges Delerue.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Ydessa, Les Ours, et Etc
- Alternate Title:
- Ydessa, The Bears and Etc
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Cine-Tamaris; France 5; France 2; Jeu de Paume Museum; Centre National de la Cinematographie
- Running Time:
- Short. 44 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 2004
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Records an exhibition of early twentieth century photographs all featuring a teddy bear in a museum in Munich. Also features Ydessa Hendeles the curator/ collector of the exhibits.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Ulysses
- Alternate Title:
- Ulysse
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Garance; Paris Audiovisuel; Ateliers de Creations de Paris
- Running Time:
- Short. 22 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1982
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Female Directors
- Notes:
- An exploration of the real and the imaginary, as the filmmaker explores a photograph she took in 1954.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Salut les Cubains
- Alternate Title:
- Hello Cubans
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Societe Nouvelle Pathe-Cinema
- Running Time:
- Short. 30 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1963
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. In French with English subtitles. Narrated by Michel Piccoli.
A montage of photographs brought back from Cuba four years after Fidel Castro came to power.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ 7 P., Cuis., S. De B.
- Alternate Title:
- 7P., Cuis., S. de B. (À Saisir); Seven Rooms, Kitchen and Bath
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Ciné-Tamaris; C.N.A.P.; F.I.ACRE au Ministère de la Culture; Centre National des Artes Plastiques du Ministère
- Running Time:
- Short. 27 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1984
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Drama, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. In French with optional English subtitles.
An unusual visit to a large empty apartment, in which the walls themselves tell the stories of time passing by.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Oncle Yanco
- Alternate Title:
- Uncle Yanco
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Cine-Tamaris; Robert Greefelder
- Running Time:
- Short. 22 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1967
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. In French with optional English subtitles.
A “portrait-report” about the painter Jean Varda. In San Francisco’s “aquatic suburbs”, Varda the painter lives a bohemian lifestyle.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Black Panthers
- Alternate Title:
- Huey
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Gefirex
- Running Time:
- Short. 30 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1968
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. In French and English with optional English subtitles.
A documentary on the 1968 Black Panther rally to free Huey Newton.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Réponse de Femmes
- Alternate Title:
- Women Respond
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Cine-Tamaris
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1975
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Television Production, Documentary, Sexuality, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Response to the question “What does it mean to be a woman?” for a French TV program.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Dites Cariatides, Les
- Alternate Title:
- The So-Called Caryatids
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Ciné-Tamaris; TF1
- Running Time:
- Short. 13 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1984
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. In French with optional English subtitles.
An essay film about “woman statures, human columns, the Caryatids of Paris” and the poems of Baudelaire.
+ Opera-Mouffe, L’
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Agnes Varda
- Running Time:
- Short. 17 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1958
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. In French with optional English subtitles. Cinematography by Varda and Sacha Vierny. Music by Georges Delerue.
Experimental short about a Paris street market as seen by a pregnant woman.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Elsa La Rose
- Alternate Title:
- Elsa
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- ORTF; Pathe Cinema
- Running Time:
- Short. 20 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1965
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. In French with English subtitles. Poems read by Michel Piccoli.
Images and poems of the famous couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet.
+ Lion Volatil, Le
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Cine-Tamaris
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 2004
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Romance, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. In French with optional English subtitles.
Clarisse and Lazare meet daily around the place Denfert-Rochereau where an enormous bronze lion looms. One day both Lazare and the lion disappear.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ T’As De Beaux Escaliers, Tu Sais
- Alternate Title:
- You’ve Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Cine-Tamaris; Miroirs pour la Cinematheque francais
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1986
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. In French with optional English subtitles. Music by Michel Legrand. With Isabelle Adjani.
An homage to the Museum of Cinema that pays loving tribute to the path leading up the stairs, into the building and up to the screen.
+ Fiances Du Pont MacDonald, Les
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Rome-Paris-Films; Carlo Ponti; Georges de Beauregard
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1961
- Language:
- French with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Comedy, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Sound. In French with optional English subtitles. Partially included in CLEO DE 5 A 7. With Anna Karina, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Claude Brialy, Eddie Constantine, Sami Frey.
A young man has a dark view of life when he wears his dark glasses. Once he removes them, things get better.
+ One Minute For One Image
- Alternate Title:
- Une Minute Pour Une Image
- Director:
- Varda, Agnès
- Production Co:
- Garance
- Running Time:
- Compilation. 21 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1983
- Language:
- French language
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Images grouped together in fourteen "imaginary albums" of between fifteen and twenty minutes' duration, comprising between ten and fifteen photographs selected by Agnès Varda, Robert Doisneau, Christian Caujolle, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Samia Saouma, Marc Garanger, Nadja Ringart, Jean-Michel Folon, Jacques Monory, Sarah Moon, Georges Fèvre, Robert Delpire, and Claude Nori. A total of one hundred and seventy programs, each of around 1'30" running time were produced. Agnès Varda provided the narration for fourteen of these programs.
The voice-over was provided by an anonymous voice for each of the photographs. It is only at the end of the program that viewers discovered the names of the photographers (famous or anonymous) and the narrators, who included a street sweeper, Marguerite Duras, a child, Yves Montand, Delphine Seyrig, Yves Saint Laurent, a baker, and so forth.
+ Coq A L’Ane, Du
- Director:
- Huet, Anne
- Production Co:
- Scèrèn-CNDP
- Running Time:
- Short. 20 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 2007
- Language:
- French language with optional English subtitles
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Notes:
- Questions and commentaries on the films. DVD includes English version.