In her final film, Varda par Agnès (2019), Varda picked out three words that she said had motivated her: “inspiration, creation, sharing.” The concept of “sharing” has a prominent place in many of her late works, from films like Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000) to Les plages d’Agnès (2008), where she frequently picks up on the small titbits of other people’s lives so that she can share them with the world. As she puts it in Varda par Agnès: “We don’t make films to watch them alone; we make films to show them.”
Tomas Elliott ⬩ Selfie-Portraits: Agnès Varda, JR, and the Politics of Sharing
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