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Agnès Varda

Also known as Agnes Varda, Agnés Varda

French artist, film director, screenwriter and photographer (1928–2019)

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Agnès Varda was a French filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist who became a major figure in cinema from the 1950s through the 2010s. She is considered important for pioneering innovative approaches to storytelling and documentary work that influenced generations of filmmakers and artists.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1928
Works: 13

Top works

Cléo de 5 á 7
Les plages d'Agnès
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
Visages villages
La marginalité à l'écran

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Film & TV

Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Agnès Varda (May 30, 1928 – March 29, 2019) was a Belgian-born French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her films, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style.

Known for

Ydessa, the Bears and etc. — Narrator (voice)2026
Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison — Self (archive footage)2025
In Her Own Words — Self2024
Viva Varda! — Self (archive footage)2023
Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera — Self (archive footage)2023
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967 — Self (voice)2022
Deneuve, la reine Catherine — Self (archive footage)2022
The World in Shots — Self2021
150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement — French Woman Talking2021
Jim Morrison: The End — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2021

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Arlette
Gender: female
Citizenship: Belgium
Place of birth: Ixelles
Place of death: 14th arrondissement of Paris
Spouse: Jacques Demy
Child: Rosalie Varda
Occupation: film director
Educated at: École du Louvre
Employer: European Graduate School
Languages spoken: French
Notable work: The Gleaners and I
Participant in: 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Field of work: film direction
Movement: feminist art
Official website: cine-tamaris.fr/agnes-varda
Image: MJK 37447 Agnès Varda (Berlinale 2019) (cropped).jpg
Height: 1.52
Number of children: 2
Significant event: Manifesto of the 343

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Commons category: Agnès Varda
date of birth: 1928-05-30
influenced by: Jacques Demy
nominated for: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
name in native language: Agnès Varda
member of: Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium
start of work period: 1955-00-00
has works in the collection: Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst
date of death: 2019-03-29
cause of death: breast cancer
place of burial: Montparnasse Cemetery
related category: Category:Films directed by Agnès Varda
hashtag: AgnesV
end of work period: 2019-00-00
described at URL: baike.sogou.com/v5589957.htm
birth name: Arlette Varda
web feed URL: www.cine-tamaris.fr/feed
manner of death: natural causes

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Encyclopedic overview

Agnès Varda (born Arlette Varda; 30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) was a Belgian-born French filmmaker, artist, and photographer.

Varda's work employed location shooting in an era when the limitations of sound technology made it easier and more common to film indoors, with constructed sets and painted backdrops of landscapes, rather than outdoors, on location. Her use of non-professional actors was also unconventional for 1950s French cinema. Varda's feature film debut was La Pointe Courte (1955), followed by Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), one of her most notable narrative films, Vagabond (1985), and Kung Fu Master (1988). Varda was also known for her work as a documentarian, with such works as Black Panthers (1968), The Gleaners and I (2000), The Beaches of Agnès (2008), Faces Places (2017), and her final film, Varda by Agnès (2019).

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