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113 - Filmmaker Agnes Varda A Conversation

Published: April 8, 2019, 9:46 p.m.

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Today we honor pioneering filmmaker Agn\\xe9s Varda, part of the French New Wave of the 1960s, who died on March 29, 2019 at home at age 90.

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Varda broke ground in many mediums \\u2014 features, documentaries, photography and art installations. Her work often focused on feminist issues and social commentary with a distinctive experimental style.\\xa0One of her most recent films \\u201cFaces Places,\\u201d a collaboration with the activist French photographer JR, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Agn\\xe9s herself received an honorary Oscar for her life\\u2019s work in
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We interviewed Agn\\xe9s for our story about Henri Langlois and the Cin\\xe9math\\xe8que Fran\\xe7aise, part of \\u201cThe Keepers,\\u201d series \\u2014 stories of activist archivists and rogue librarians.

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Today, the Kitchen Sisters Present a short commemoration we produced for NPR and the full interview Davia did with her in her home in Paris in 2017.

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