Agnès Varda made a 5-minute love letter to friendship and cinema—bring tissues.
In 2007, the French filmmaker and my dear friend Agnès Varda called me before coming to L.A. with a question: would I agree to let her film my L.A. story? The video you are about to watch is the story of our first encounter in Paris in 1996 and in the years since, how our shared reverence for cinema formed the bonds of an everlasting friendship, and how the Cinematheque became like home.
Direction
Varda's personal touch turns home movies into poetry.
Editing
Seamless weaving of 1996 Paris and 2007 L.A. timelines.
Director
Agnès Varda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This short was created as part of Varda's larger project documenting her California years, often screening alongside her feature 'The Beaches of Agnès.'
Gwen Deglise later became a prominent film programmer at the American Cinematheque, making this portrait also a document of institutional memory passing between generations of cinephiles.
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