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...Lithuanian parents in Costa Rica, Schyfter studied psychology at the National University of Mexico before taking a course in television production and directing at London’s British Broadcasting Center. “I was [in London] in the 70s, which was a great time, not only for cinema but also for the BBC and its programs,” Schyfter says. After directing a string of documentaries, Schyfter transitioned cautiously to feature-length films in the 90s. “I was very scared, very nervous, but then I realized that I loved working with actors...
...autobiographical portrait of her life and work that premiered at Venice Film Festival, was awarded best French film of the year by the French Union of Film Critics, and garnered a French Cesar for Best Documentary. In the film Varda discusses how, as a photographer, she imagined cinema was simply photography, but with dialogue. “This was a stupid thought,” said Varda in an interview. “Cinema is not a still image plus dialogue. When I found this out, that was the minute I went from photography to cinema. I understood cinema...
Agnes Varda, herself a widow, is a French photographer and filmmaker whose work forms part of the canon of French New Wave Cinema. In 2005, Varda directed a documentary on the French island of Noirmoutier, “Quelques Veuves de Noirmoutier,” a series of interviews with widowed women. That same footage, displaced and rearranged, makes up the exhibition at the Sert Gallery. In the gallery context, these encounters become at once personal and jarring, an intimate look at women to whom death has brought not only grief but also a new identity...
...have to be creative, and I feel that the issue of the decriminalization, regulation and taxation of marijuana fits that bill. It's not new, the idea has been around, and the political will may in fact be there to make something happen." (See pictures of stoner cinema...