Salut les Cubains and Black Panthers by Agnès Varda
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Across two documentary shorts from the 1960s, Agnès Varda traces the transnational exchange of revolutionary energy from two geopolitical centers: Havana, Cuba, and Oakland, California. Invited by the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos in 1961, Varda captured thousands of images of post-revolutionary Cuba that she assembled into a kinetic work of photomontage. Years later, she used a 16mm camera to capture Black Panther meetings and demonstrations in the wake of Huey P. Newton’s 1968 arrest. Shown together, these two shorts revive the global solidarities of the 1960s and showcase the emergent political engagement of Varda’s reflexive documentary aesthetics.
Salut les Cubains, 1963, France, DCP, 29 min.
Black Panthers, 1968, France/US, DCP, 31 min.
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Agnès Varda (1928–2019) was a Belgian-born French filmmaker, screenwriter, photographer, and visual artist. Often called the “godmother of the French New Wave” for her early works, such as La Pointe Courte (1955) and Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), she broke narrative traditions and influenced future directors. Varda was credited with inspiring many of the hallmarks of the movement: nonlinear narrative, an emphasis on mood over story line, and often-jarring editing. She also made numerous documentaries, several commissioned by the French tourism office. “I am the queen of the margins,” she told the New York Times in 2009, remarking on her lack of name recognition from a commercial standpoint. “But the films are loved. The films are remembered. And this is my aim—to be loved as a filmmaker because I want to share emotions, to share the pleasure of being a filmmaker.”
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