Daguerreotypes

(Agnès Varda, France 1976, 80 min., DCP, French w/subtitles)

Agnès Varda: (Self)-Portraits, Facts and Fiction. Daguerreotypes is a stunningly intimate portrait of the shopkeepers and small shops of the rue Daguerre, a picturesque Parisian street, where Varda has lived and worked for more than fifty years. The title, Daguerreotypes, references both the name of her street and early photographic portraits, which she evokes in poetically documenting her neighbors. Through this intimate and local lens, Varda reveals a larger world in the process of transformation, creating a portrait of a city and ways of life that no longer exist.

“Beautiful . . . full of splendid mysteries.” – The New York Times

Presented by Dr. Jessica Lieberman, Associate Professor, Department of Performing Arts and Visual Culture, RIT.