Film Forum

Total runtime approx. 107 min.

Salut les Cubains
Cuba/France, 1963
Directed by Agnès Varda
In French with English subtitles
29 mins.

Varda visited Cuba four years after Fidel Castro came to power and composed this kinetic travelogue and document of social change through the use of hundreds of still photographs, music, and narration.

Ulysse
France, 1983
Directed by Agnès Varda
In French with English subtitles
Approx. 22 mins.

Varda revisits a photograph she took in the 1950s of a nude man and a toddler on a rocky beach, using the image as the springboard for a film combining still and moving images that reflects on the passage of time and the creation of art.

Ydessa, the Bears, and etc.
France, 2004
Directed by Agnès Varda
In French with English subtitles
Approx. 44 mins.

Varda’s fascination with Ydessa Hendeles’ exhibition “The Living and the Artificial,” which features vintage photographs of people with their teddy bears, seeking comfort in a dangerous world, led to this documentary, including an interview with Hendeles, a daughter of Holocaust survivors.

In Chris Marker’s Studio
France, 2011
Directed by Agnès Varda
In French with English subtitles
Approx. 9 mins.

Varda visits her longtime friend Chris Marker at his studio, with its clutter of computer equipment, books and magazines, and cats; she then meets him later online, in the virtual world of of Second Life, where they communicate via avatars.

A Salut to Henri Langlois
France, 2014
Directed by Agnès Varda
In French with English subtitles
Approx. 2 mins.

Made as part of a centennial celebration of the birth of Cinématheque Francaise founder Henri Langlois, the film includes a story Varda tells about a trip to Eastern Europe to collect films.


Presented with support from The Helen Frankenthaler Endowed Fund for Films on Art and The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Fund