Synopsis

This is the third in a series of ongoing screenings that forms Birds’ Eye View’s new 4-film 5-city Reclaim The Frame Influencers project; a mission to bring ever-greater audiences to films by women and build a more balanced film future.

Our third film, Faces Places (French: Visages Villages) is a 2017 French documentary film directed by Agnès Varda and photographer and muralist JR.

See it with Birds’ Eye View and join our audience discussion after with special guests speakers to be announced soon.

Agnès Varda and JR have things in common: their passion for images in general and more particularly questioning the places where they are showed, how they are shared, exposed. Agnès chose cinema. JR chose to create open-air photographic galleries.

When Agnès and JR met in 2015, they immediately wanted to work together, shoot a film in France, far from the cities. Random encounters or prepared projects, they will go towards the others and get them to follow them on their trip with JR’s photographic truck.

FACES PLACES is also about their friendship that grows during the shooting, between surprises and malice, laughing of their differences.

Cast & Crew

FACES PLACES (2017) – 89 mins

Directed by Agnes Varda and JR

Nominated for Best Documentary Oscar 2018

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