moodboardmix:Agnès Varda (30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) Mrs Agnès Varda di
moodboardmix: Agnès Varda (30 May 1928 – 29 March 2019) Mrs Agnès Varda died Thursday at age 90 from complications with cancer while surrounded by family and friends. She is an icon of the “Nouvelle vague” (French New Wave), before it even had that name.Her films, photographs, and art installations focused on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary with a distinctive experimental style. The director of films such as “ La Pointe Courte”, “ Cléo from 5 to 7 ,” “ Vagabond ,” “ The Beaches of Agnès ” and many more also received an honorary Oscar in 2017, the first given to a female director. Merci, Agnes. For your films. For your passion. For your light. It shines on. “Fragmented Self Portrait,” 2009,Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo -- source link