When Agnès Varda sees the world, we all see the world

Abstract

This article explores the work of the French filmmaker Agnès Varda, focusing on the essential topics she addresses in her films and images, during the 60 years of a career dedicated to produce independent cinema. Varda was always an unconventional filmmaker when it comes to the use of formats and techniques of filmmaking. But she has been very firm on her humanistic contents, that explore the diversity of human beings in political, artistic and emotional fields. This text is a brief review of some of her most outstanding works, with an eagerness to decipher how, through different devices and genres, the narrative proposed by Varda has always been, from 1954 to 2019, solid and faithful.