The gleaners
and I
Revisiting Agnès Varda’s edit
With the support of
The gleaners and I
An original project for image education
Ciné-Tamaris is making all of the rush from the documentary feature The Gleaners and I available to film students worldwide, accompanied by the film, so that they can study Agnès Varda’s editing technique and use this raw material to create their own version of the film.
This dedicated platform allows all of the rushes to be viewed and downloaded, along with the edited version of the film and the film’s mix on separate tracks. There will also be a pedagogical kit, notably including photographs and press releases from the period.
INA has indexed all of the rushes. This indexing technique, applied for the first time to a film’s rushes, will allow the students to easily explore the rich diversity of nearly sixty hours of rushes to create their version.
WHAT ABOUT AGNÈS’S OTHER FILMS?
Memories of images,
a heritage project
Ciné-Tamaris wants to create a database compiling over one thousand hours of images shot on film or digital film by Agnès Varda, rediscovered in 2020. These are the rushes of her films but also sequences capturing her everyday life, her observations and amused way of seeing the world. A few finds from Jacques Demy’s early films in super 8 and 9.5 mm will also be added to the database.
The idea is to :
- digitize and restore the images and sound elements
- view and index all of it
- create a thematic database; by entering keywords such as beach, cat or the names of artists she encountered, the users can access all of the images and transcripts of previously unseen interviews.
Thanks to this ambitious project, which will consist of finding and taking stock of existing film rushes to unearth new images, Ciné-Tamaris could eventually make this corpus available to researchers within the context of their work, but also produce documentaries and exhibitions to share and convey Agnès’s words and gaze.
Our job is to uncover the hidden pearls in the work of a lifetime—and in life in general.
PIER PAOLO PASOLINI – AGNÈS VARDA -NEW YORK – 1967
We found sound and picture reels labelled “Pasolini New York”. Once these elements were digitized, we discovered a precious interview with Pier Paolo Pasolini made by Agnès Varda in 1967 in New York. For several minutes, Agnès Varda questions the filmmaker about cinema, fiction and its relationship to reality, religion, and more.
Ciné-Tamaris entrusted the restoration of the image to the Éclair Classics / L’Image Retrouvée laboratory and the sound restoration to L.E. Diapason in Paris.
AN EARLY FILM BY JACQUES DEMY
We found 9.5 mm reels of this early film in which Jacques Demy, still a teenager, films and directs his own family with the family camera.
The name Jacques Demy appears in the credits, possibly for the first time onscreen.
The film was digitized by the Éclair Classics / L’Image Retrouvée laboratory.
This project enjoys the support of :
CNC, INA, Villa Albertine,
Netflix, CHANEL, Ola Strøm et YGGDRASIL,
Cinémathèque française, Institut Lumière, ArteKino, mk2 Films,
The Criterion Collection, Janus Films
Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
