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Agnès Varda’s THE GLEANERS AND I (2000) presented with Operation Food Search
September 27 : 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
This screening is presented in partnership with Operation Food Search (OFS). Ticket proceeds benefit OFS, and Jacob Beck will introduce the film with a talk about OFS’s gleaning work.
One of the most acclaimed films of the 21st century, Agnès Varda’s extraordinary late-career renaissance began with this wonderfully idiosyncratic, self-reflexive documentary in which the ever-curious French cinema icon explores the little-known world of modern-day gleaners: those living on the margins who survive by foraging for that which society throws away. Embracing the intimacy and freedom of digital filmmaking, Varda posits herself as a kind of gleaner of images and ideas, one whose generous, expansive vision makes room for ruminations on everything from aging to the birth of cinema to the beauty of heart-shaped potatoes. By turns playful, philosophical, and subtly political, The Gleaners and I is a warmly human reflection on the contradictions of our consumerist world from an artist who, like her subjects, finds unexpected richness where few think to look.
Tickets are a minimum $10, but we encourage you to pay more if you can afford it. All proceeds will be donated directly to Operation Food Search!
“ONE OF THE 10 GREATEST DOCUMENTARIES OF ALL TIME! Agnès Varda’s handheld DV autoportrait of the artist as an older woman…brilliantly encompasses agriculture, art history, class politics, ecology, economics, recycling raps and the origins of cinema.” – Sight & Sound
“ONE OF THE 100 BEST FILMS OF THE 21ST CENTURY! a profound, uncommonly tender and searchingly philosophical dream of what it could mean to live in the world — take only what you need, share everything you have — that is itself a tour de force of cinematic gleaning.” – The New York Times
“#67 – GREATEST FILMS OF ALL TIME POLL! Agnès Varda’s investigation into the cast-offs and castaways of society is both brilliantly funny and well-observed in its meta-textual reflection on the things we reclaim.” -Sight & Sound (Ariel Baska)
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