Remembering Agnès Varda

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The trailblazing filmmaker Agnès Varda died on Friday of breast cancer at age 90. In tribute to her, we’re revisiting Kurt’s 2017 interview with Varda and her collaborator JR.

Their Oscar-nominated movie,Faces Places,documents their loving — albeit unexpected — friendship. She was a founding member of the French New Wave, while he is a 36-year-old French artist known for plastering huge black-and-white photographs on the sides of buildings around the world. A few years ago, they hit the road for a tour of the French countryside, creating a series of public art projects everywhere they stopped.

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0:00.0	from PRX.
0:07.0	This is Studio 360. I'm Kurt Anderson.
0:13.3	This is Zoe Saunders from Studio 360.
0:16.5	The legendary filmmaker, Anyas Varda, died on Friday, March 29th, at the age of 90.
0:24.2	I've been a huge fan of hers ever since I first saw Cleo from 5 to 7,
0:29.4	and her great feminist movie, One Sings the Other Doesn't, is one of my all-time favorites.
0:35.9	As a producer, I've been lucky enough to meet a lot of people
0:38.7	whose work I admire, but no one has really surpassed my expectations the way that she did.
0:44.6	When I got a chance to produce an interview with her, it was a highlight of my time at Studio
0:49.2	360. She stopped by our studios in 2017, along with the artist JR, to talk with Kurt about their documentary
0:56.4	faces places.
0:57.8	They were so charming together, and I wanted to share that with you guys now.
1:03.6	You want me to say how much I love Agnes as a mic test
1:10.9	Agnes I love you I've always loved you
1:14.0	even in 1800 when I was not born and even conceived
1:18.1	I was already thinking of you
1:20.2	You are clever man
1:21.3	Sometimes
1:22.6	You're so important
1:24.4	Listen to that beloni I can say
1:27.4	You can say baloney, I can say.
1:28.3	You can say baloney.
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