During these months of pandemic shutdown, even as the familiar metronome of work deadlines keeps clicking, many of us are experiencing time in new ways.
The hours and days and weeks can take on an unaccustomed blankness, an unsettling fragmentation or elasticity. I've found myself wondering what Agnès Varda would make of this uncharted territory if she were still alive and well and making movies, and what inspiring connective leaps her work might be taking.
Varda, who died in March 2019, just weeks short of her 91st birthday and soon after her final work premiered in Berlin, had become a welcome and comforting screen presence in her latter years, in particular for her defining documentaries of that period — The Gleaners and I, The Beaches.
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