Digital Platform ‘The Gleaners and I’ Brings Agnès Varda to Next Generation of Filmmakers
variety.comBen Croll After nearly two years of planning, the digital platform “The Gleaners and I: Revisiting Agnès Varda’s Edit” is about to go live.
Supported by Martin Scorsese, the pedagogical platform will open the treasure trove of Agnès Varda’s archives, making never-before-seen footage and hours of unused rushes available to nascent filmmakers across the globe.
Through “The Gleaners and I,” students at participating universities will be able to re-edit and completely rethink Varda’s 2000 documentary of the same name — pooling from 62 hours of rushes, all subtitled in English – under the proviso that each new clip edit be uploaded back on to the platform. “Agnès would have surely loved the idea of having her work live on in this way,” says daughter and project leader Rosalie Varda. “She would want to give the students full freedom – and that’s what we’ve done.
Participants can really reconceive the work however they see fit. We offer to film students the possibility to understand the creative process behind Agnès’ film which was selected at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000.” “With the rushes, each student could create a new sequence, a different exercise or even a whole other documentary.
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