Varda Shorts

L’OPERA MOUFFE

As in La Pointe Courte, Varda mixes documentary and fiction to offer a picturesque yet unglamourous portrait of the inhabitants of the (then) working-class rue Mouffetard in Paris, with a poetic reflection on female desire and pregnancy, in turn informed by autobiography (Varda was pregnant at the time with her first child, Rosalie).

FRANCE 1958 17 MIN | 35MM CAST: DOROTHéE BlANK, ANTOINE BOURSEILLER LANGUAGE: FRENCH (ENGLISH SUBTITLES)

SALUT LES CUBAINS

A montage of photographs taken four years after the Cuban revolution gives an exuberant portrait of the country, set against Cuban music.
FRANCE 1963 30 MIN | 35MM LANGUAGE: FRENCH (ENGLISH SUBTITLES)

UNCLE YANCO

“This is a portrait of the painter Jean Varda, my uncle. In the aquatic suburbs of San Francisco, intellectual heart and centre of the bohemian, he navigates with a sail and paints celestial and Byzantine cities because he is Greek. Nevertheless, he is involved in young American movements; hippies and drop outs come to see him in his house-boat. How I discovered my American uncle and how marvellous is the man: that’s what I show in this colorful short”. Agnès Varda.
FRANCE 1967 22 MIN | 35MM LANGUAGE: FRENCH (ENGLISH SUBTITLES)

7P., CUIS., S. dE B., .. A SAISIR

The title of this short film, estate agent language for a large flat, gives no clue to the extraordinary fiction that ensues. Within the flat, a family lives and ages. Grass grows on tables, feathers cover furniture and characters, wax figures mingle with live actors. Under the sureal humour Varda conducts a reflection on ageing and a play on textures and emotions.
FRANCE 1984 27 MIN | 35MM LANGUAGE: FRENCH (ENGLISH SUBTITLES)

LE LION VOLATIL

A delightful little fiction which weaves its story around the large lion statue on Place Denfert-Rochereau in Paris, with romance, magic and as Varda says, ‘the power of cats’.
FRANCE 2003 12 MIN | 35MM CAST: JULIE DEPARDIEU LANGUAGE: FRENCH (ENGLISH SUBTITLES)