After studying at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and then at the Ecole du Louvre, Agnès Varda began working as a photographer at the Théâtre National Populaire.
Agnès Varda made her first feature film, “La pointe courte”, in 1954, with Alain Resnais as editor and with the participation of actor Philippe Noiret. In the 60s, she embodied the young French cinema of the Left Bank, alongside Jacques Demy (her husband), Chris Marker and Alain Resnais. Agnès Varda spent several periods in Los Angeles, where she made a feature film and several documentaries.
In the 80s she shot the drama “Sans toit ni loi”, followed by “Jane B. par Agnès V.” and “Kung-Fu Master”, featuring the moods of Jane Birkin. In the 90s, after the death of her husband Jacques Demy, she paid tribute to him with a drama and two documentaries: “Jacquot de Nantes”, “Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans” and “Lunivers de Jacques Demy”. In the 2000s, she switched to a digital camera and made “Les glaneurs et la glaneuse”, which she filmed herself, to great acclaim.
She also has exhibitions as a young visual artist, but also presents her work as a photographer. She has received numerous awards for her films and documentaries, notably for “Les plages d’Agnès”, an autobiographical documentary that won a César in 2008. In 2015, she was awarded the Palme d’Or, and her latest documentary, a collaboration with JR, won the Palme d’Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Agnès Varda, an artist full of meaning and overflowing with tenderness who really deserves to be studied.
