Daguerréotypes

Daguerréotypes
Hommage
Agnés Varda
France
1976
75min
French

In the mid-1970s, Agnès Varda filmed her neighborhood on the Rue Daguerre in Paris, which at that time was one of the city’s most bustling commercial districts. She filmed butchers, bakers, tailors, grocers, hairstylists, a driving-school instructor and a street magician. Her vignettes are short, fleeting interactions combining interviews with observational shots. The camera wanders along the street moving from close-ups to tableau vivants and back. As if in ironic reference to Vertov’s classic, Man with a Movie Camera, Varda combines the tricks of a street magician with footage of her interlocutors stocking shelves and baking bread—playfully reminding the viewer of the magic of cinema, and at the same time offering a true time-travel experience.

Projections: 
11.13. Wednesday 16:30
Kino - Big Hall
English Subtitle
Distribution info: 
mk2 films, Pablo Carrizosa, intlfest@mk2.com, 55 rue Traversière 75012 Paris, + 33 (0)1 44 67 32 56, mk2films.com