LA JETÉE & THE GLEANERS AND I
LA JETÉE | SUN APRIL 23 6:15 PM
CHRIS MARKER | FRANCE | 1963 | 27 MIN | NR | FRENCH, GERMAN
BFI’s 2022 Sight & Sound List #68
The intensity and palpable power of still imagery is exemplified through the gripping frame by frame illustration of devastation following World War III in Chris Marker’s 1962 science fiction wonder.
Cast: Jean Négroni, Étienne Becker, Hélène Chatelain
THE GLEANERS AND I | SUN APRIL 23 6:45 PM
AGNÈS VARDA | FRANCE | 2003 | 82 MIN | NR | FRENCH
BFI’s 2022 Sight & Sound List #70
Abandoning tradition, Agnes Varda utilizes a digital camera, enveloping herself within the fluid, shifting worlds of Gleaners in France, empathetically capturing a demographic scouring fields and dumpsters for objects left to decay.
Cast: Agnès Varda, François Wertheimer, Jean La Planche, Bodan Litnanski