21st(2019)
Women’s Answer
Agnès VARDA
- France
- 1975
- 8min
- DCP
- color
- Documentary
SYNOPSIS
In 1975, VARDA was asked to join a program by Antenna 2 Channel. The program asked the question, “what is woman?” to 7 women, giving 7 minutes to explain. VARDA extended the length to 8 minutes and collected feedback from various women. Women that differ in age (including a little girl), appearance, and thoughts appear – mostly naked - and talk about sex, lust, and pregnancy. They show their bodies as they are, shattering the women’s body imagery that media, advertisement, and customs have distorted. This short asks what it is to be a woman and seeks the answer. [KIM Hyeshin]
Director
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Agnès VARDAAgnès VARDA
Born in Ixelles, Brussels on May 30, 1928 and died on March 29, 2019.
VARDA was an extraordinary artist who pioneered modern cinema through installation arts, photography, live action films, and documentaries. As the mother of the Nouvelle Vague, she is also known as a pioneer of female films not only in France but throughout the world. As an expressive feminist, VARDA is famous for her critical essays on documentary-like reality and her interests on everyday life, photography, and arts.
