Agnès Varda, 1928 - 2019, was a French film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist. Born in Belgium, she spent most of her working life in France. She began her career as a still photographer before becoming one of the major voices of the Left Bank Cinema and French New Wave. Her pioneering work was central to the development of the widely influential French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Her films, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary with a distinctive experimental style. Throughout her life she maintained a fluid interrelationship between photographic and cinematic forms.
