Arkansas Instances Movie Sequence screens “The Gleaners and I” (2000) subsequent Tuesday night time

ARKANSAS TIMES FILM SERIES: ‘THE GLEANERS AND I’
TUESDAY 3/21. Riverdale 10 Cinema. 7 p.m.

The 12 months earlier than she died, French filmmaker Agnes Varda was described by the New Yorker as somebody who “loves the burnt edges of cinema, discovering treasures in photographs or concepts that different administrators would possibly reject.” When a critic says one thing like this, I usually surprise in the event that they’re simply exaggerating in service of an suave argument. Certain, each artistic brings one thing distinctive to the desk, however how really inimitable can anyone artist actually be? Varda’s idiosyncratic work provides us a definitive reply to that query.

In “The Gleaners and I” (2000), an uncommon and discursive documentary, Varda wields a handheld digital camcorder for the primary time and presents a poetically associative perspective on those that glean — or acquire and make use of what’s discarded by others  — out of both poverty or conviction. The topic materials itself feels stumbled upon, spontaneous and genuinely found, in addition to the conclusion she involves that the films she makes are additionally animated by the spirit of gleaning. One other distinctive characteristic of this movie is the way in which its manufacturing course of intrudes upon the viewing expertise, via self-reflexive acknowledgements of Varda’s presence behind the digital camera and playful inclusions of unintentional footage.

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