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Agnès Varda | Inspiration and good mood: THAT’S CINEMA! | TEDxVeniceBeach


what was Venice Beach before the tech

boom before buskers were busted before

skateboarders skated before iron was

pumped before oil was dumped what was

Venice Beach before the universe banged

and bigness aspiration is my subject not

the physical action of breathing and not

the charming romantic News’s coming to

whisper in the ear of a poet no speaking

but a strong word inspiration which goes

with creation and sharing those are the

words who have been in the middle of my

working life no look at that box it’s

full of DVDs of all my films and other

things 60 years of creation not even

four pounds it’s like nothing sorry

nothing this is you can have it so it

could be this could be the end I could

be finished could be like going to

retire but it’s not I felt I should not

retire so what keeps me on it’s

motivation inspiration desire of

creating well it hasn’t stopped so we

don’t know exactly because what I know

is that desire is the essence of life

aspiration is the essence of creating of

creation so how does it come you know

it’s it can be vague things invading the

brain it could be some thoughts and

sometimes it’s just emergency after tell

you story this is in 1967 I’m in San

Francisco there is a Film Festival and

Tom Lodi said to me there is a man named

vada is a painter in Sausalito we should

go and meet him but we went

and he was a man tom introduced me to

that mad-beautiful hippy type long hair

big pants loving loving look and he said

he was a real cousin of my father so we

were family and there was love at the

first sight – salut – we were so happy

to me and I was impressed and I think

I’ll have to I have to capture that I

should make a film right away this is

where on Wednesday you know I know how

to leave on Monday I call a distributor

called greens fella I said look I need a

35-millimeter camera film stock and he

brought me – Tom put – David Meyers

known DP and we started to shoot on

Friday we shot you know Yonko his

paintings the house what was around and

on Saturday he invited friends everybody

spoke about what he was doing in on

Sunday he invited young people and some

animals to go in a little boat and he

went to sail on the way and then I did

some wild sound in English and in French

so the thing is that when I filmed I

thought they already kind of editing I

want you to do because I knew I wanted

to tell the meeting but not just tell

the meeting I should express the

excitement the surprise the joy that

happened so I did what I did

and I succeeded to do a baroque editing

that the retailer

i delegated my friend time to get

information and introduced me without

imaginary families I love you

I dedicate to your sketch which will

follow when we play for you the

adventurer recognition oh oh

ankle ankle acknowledged his knees and

knees by bringing someone who would like

to meet you samia’s pardon use it left a

notion you are the daughter of a

gentleman he say Corre to avnu but since

I attacked her he say he called to do

Varna to avian you sound music Lafitte

saying visit say a the daughter of a Jen

mother

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because here it is true that I love that

meeting and Junko became an aspiration

for me like Picasso I never met Picasso

but I was so impressed by the way could

reinvent his own art every five years

changing inventing and other artists

also like Cal they had loved Cathy those

artists and spiders we we did you know I

think art feeders that’s the way I feel

but sometimes it’s most simple thing

that inspired me like everyday life you

know this is in 2000 it was the end of a

farmer market and the van der the farmer

we’re putting their boxes and basket

back in the truck and the city cleaners

with their you know their plastic green

rooms were waiting and I could see

people coming young on old people

bending their bodies to get something on

the floor and what was left you know sub

salad

some boxes of eggs some eggs were broken

so the vendor left the box fruits not

very in good shape different things and

it was very impressed a sentence came in

mind in my mind right away it said they

will eat what we throw away and it

became I thought you think I should do

something about that I should van was

cleaning well what can be green in the

fields in the in the cities in the

cities mostly the garbage cans and in

the field current you know April’s sir

and potato so that’s how I started the

documentary called

the gland era like liners in English the

Bakula is on so fast roman agora IBM PC

in wasabi and racism

no wonder from the terror the

ingredients 19 millimeters was

uncharacterrized to Tusker to to

only disabled who de nada taiga OSA oh

yeah Yankees non-default from the okay

Avila telecare tell Co prism Jetta

cotton Jersey

Osito Phil Mader pre-pre Jang Hong dal

amezo cerveza regard a jet or Nikolas

can say cancer huh 13 deserve the Hadees

cell Jericho masala film a le

I’ll switch to visit faces pity but that

utopia

each fellas satsang kilo de patata koo

hairless aloha the sacrum sitting upon

me a Caucasian cell it was a cow I was

impressed by the beauty of these old

potatoes the hot chick booties became a

very important feeling that you know

that’s the way you look at things that

make them beautiful and I love the

thought of another more typical way of

discussing about beauty you know the

classical the beautiful face of a

beautiful woman

this is Cohen Masha who acted as clue in

my film clue from 5 to 7 this is in 1961

and the time was very strange because in

the late 50s in the late 60s heard the

word difficult things about the Algerian

war and it was a very general feeling

afraid of cancer like a fear for

everybody and I thought cancer should be

a subject and I thought I should tell

the story of a woman expecting medical

result she’s afraid to have a cancer

she’s afraid to die and I wrote the

story of her ninety minutes of her

expecting those result I was near her

trying to understand her feeling trying

to go you know really go with her and

but there was something which was more

complicated for me I had a secret

aspiration and sometimes it’s a painting

and I’ve been very inspired by a

painting from hands between this is 15

her

and used to do these beautiful women

with skeleton this one pulls her hair

also are speaking to her here and it was

for me the kernel beauty and the dryness

of the skeleton flesh and bones and that

emerge was in me like a metaphor of the

story of Clue

sometimes I had the postcard with me put

it on the wall where we were shooting

you know the pressure unclear the

pressure of death is strong and I wanted

to to understand what she felt and

understand how she will be as a

beautiful singer attacked even by the

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so blue I just did that benefit today if

you serve a Lemu caramely sheet click on

remove curled onion are you a chance

unless you execute a move today I miss

you nailed mundo la chanson limo because

go seconds also commute the Todd York 10

Jeffries please cut please when I mix

the mole and a bush with a cookie for

the winter Chris use tapas with uni

judge you not kept adding to bed soon

Matt knows where I’m not able to show me

the moment Cabo mrs. Travis often charm

is that excite you Felix I tell you see

comin up tell Molly book Ramon who

what’s up in men never mix wet paint

I was done no so much let me only where

we shop Sasuke don’t under I could

either move so lady levy

figured a poopy to shoreline man

it’s a pretty good

the member by.ya by pop up there to be

do those opposed go to the monarch out

nirrti gonna call your class Yangon yeah

but you see even in a fiction film I

love to have part of the commentary that

was true that’s the way that man was

doing and other people in the street

because I’m very interested in real

people that’s why I do documentaries

among other things you know the it’s not

the power of truth but the truth is very

interesting it’s very it’s attaching

it’s difficult you know and and most of

the time I tried to grab what his life

would inspire documentary one day pushed

to a very sudden spirit which happened

because the world the field director for

umbrellas are frevo dragged me who also

was my husband was sick very sick and he

was writing his memories the memories of

his childhood and he would show me the

pages every other day and he said I

would like to do the film but I don’t

have the strength to do it would you

like to do it so I said I will do with

him from his memories so I felt I enter

in his head to remember I shared the

same time of the war have shared the

bombing unknown you know where we’re

trying to play as children but I was not

interested in my memories but his

memories during the world so when I did

a film I understood I had to go sail one

was to be near him as near as possible

in a cinema language I would have to do

close up almost macro filming and I

wanted to get that the camera will be

near him get the Simpson get the texture

of his hair texture of his skin the

and the other hand though as a part of

the fiction was a fiction about his

childhood and how in the doing sis

difficult time it was a young boy who

was who had a very early vocation and

how alone in his attic he started to

make animated film his wish was to learn

about sin his wish to be to go in a film

school but he was doing his own work

attitude Anatomy all it was in criticism

oh yeah see your fear he left those

whose solutions are you – Nene much it

was that song to me much good night Jean

– Tony image we see common with mapache

cpython

often moi tak tak tak tak tak sedan a

mutiny

their complete my OTD songs go so

sakru CVG

so a homophone you know I was very

impressed by that early vocation and

Jack became a a wonderful director but

at the end of our shooting he passed

away it has been a difficult time and my

life has been fulfilled with love family

a lot of work and sometimes bitches also

it’s difficult to say that I felt that

have been a lot of work and but I became

known but in the margin have been always

interested in people in romaji

and some of my documentaries are related

to what I would say squirters Gleaners

poor people

anonymous courageous right he was gentle

of people saving Jewish people during

the war and we owe them love you know so

I took some time to do these

documentaries about those people that I

I want to share I want to make people

share and then I feel some time I’m a

go-between

people have filmed and the audience’s

because sharing is more interesting than

anything and I was lucky to meet

recently Jaya

an artist and I’m photographer and we

decided together to do the same thing we

like you know empathy for people trying

to catch the best of them listening to

them and making big images of them on

the wall and all these people were

people out of power and we never spoke

politics we want to do person-to-person

share what what could be understood when

we speak can be to people so we did that

feel

s corner faces places here now Francis a

Vizag village and the way we did was

that his basic big images we did it

because we were traveling and we have

been so so friendly at first sight

we travel in his magical truck and maybe

it’s around here it’s a truck in which

there is a lab so you enter to have a

little photo you got you get a person

and you want to paste it you do it so we

we went there and during the the road

movie time we learn to know each other

better

discovery shop just five two years of

difference of age but we got along so

well that age was not a problem but no

the understanding and I understood my

age inspired him he was interesting in

the fact that I looked not very well my

my eyes awake

I cannot go up sucess and he started to

take picture of me photos of pieces of

me I didn’t know what he wanted to do

will feel but I can load it to the soul

so there is an accept you will see what

he did with my with my pieces of body

but meanwhile you see I was expressing

explaining to work in a factory

what was our project what was the Utopia

okay oh dear I creep a competetive a

Dvinsk is reef arabic Septimus udoit the

city water misogyny

she said the Kissick led me and Pamela

what you’ve actually tasted more to say

we keep our super t70 passivity may feel

apologetic who you religious about the

peaceful even go to the beach a sip of

our imagination

Rocco sitaji hosonaga share my imaginary

shows in the de Mendoza as compared

furniture emerging assertion a park or

not he did to Zeus 80 that of occlusion

is Hawaii Tom suppose economy little

group document on and this year the

pattern of a beautiful to cook a pizza

Filipino visually

Sakina Felicia on the spare

acceptability hosel Bosque beautiful

section which is a lipid signaling

so try i don’t please don’t want

power of imagination freedom in creation that’s what is that

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