www.egs.edu Agnès Varda, French director, photographer and filmmaker discussing and featuring the film Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse 2000 aka The Gleaners and I, a documentary about things we leave behind or throw away, the leftover, cleaning, what is left, what means picking, selecting, chosing and giving. Agnès Varda, lecturing about making and directing movies and films for television, theatre and cinema, and working as an artist, director, documentary filmmaker, a voice for the people featured in her videos. Public open video lecture for the faculty and students of the European Graduate School, Media and Communication Studies Department Program, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2004. Agnès Varda (born May 30, 1928) is a French film director. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style. Varda was born in Brussels, Belgium, to a Greek father and French mother. Her father’s family were Greek refugees from Asia Minor. For her first film La Pointe courte (editing by Alain Resnais), she drew her inspiration from the region of Sète, where she grew up. Varda traveled from France to San Francisco and shot a quasi-surreal documentary film on her father’s cousin, Jean Varda, titled Uncle Yanko. For the 1985 documentary-style feature film Vagabond/Without Roof or Rule she received the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival. Filmography Year English Title French Title …