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Agnes Varda
Kelley Conway
   "Let's celebrate the many dimensions of Agnès Varda as one of the greatest artists working today. Conway succeeds in capturing her curiosity, ingenuity, wit, and new storytelling to confirm her status as the indefatigable pioneer of European cinema."--Hans Ulrich Obrist
   "Kelley Conway builds upon a vast array of archival research to forge this insightful study of Agnès Varda's distinct approach to filmmaking. Conway concentrates on Varda's experimental production strategies and Varda's engagement with her audience across a truly amazing career."--Richard Neupert, author of  A History of the French New Wave Cinema, second edition
   "A breakthrough text on Varda's trajectory from photography and film to video, digital media, and installation projects. Conway's pages on the reception of  Cleo from 5 to 7  are stunning. Her take on  The Gleaners and I, The Widows of Noirmoutier , and  The Beaches of Agnès  is astute." --Steven Ungar, coauthor of  Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture
   Both a precursor to and a critical member of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda weaves documentary and fiction into tapestries that portray distinctive places and complex human beings. Critics and aficionados have celebrated Varda's independence and originality since the New Wave touchstone  Cleo from 5 to 7  (1962) brought her a level of international acclaim she has yet to relinquish.   Film historian Kelley Conway traces Varda's works from her 1954 debut  La Pointe Courte  through a varied career that includes nonfiction and fiction shorts and features, installation art, and the triumphant 2008 documentary  The Beaches of Agnès . Drawing on Varda's archives and conversations with the filmmaker, Conway focuses on the concrete details of how Varda makes films: a project's emergence, its development and the shifting forms of its screenplay, the search for financing, and the execution from casting through editing and exhibition. In the process, she departs from film history's traditional view of the French New Wave and reveals one artist's nontraditional trajectory through independent filmmaking. The result is an intimate consideration that reveals the artistic consistencies and bold changes in the career of one of the world's most exuberant and intriguing directors.

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