This is the third in a series of ongoing events at Curzon Soho that forms part of 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 to build a more balanced film future.

These preview events are part of Gleaning Truths, the BFI supported nationwide touring programme presenting Agnès Varda’s eight feature-length and documentary films that precede Faces Places.

For more info, visit: www.agnesvarda.co.uk

FACES PLACES (2017) – 89 mins

Directed by Agnes Varda and JR

Nominated for Best Documentary Oscar 2018

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.

 

The film is followed by an A&Q discussion with special guest speakers: Kaleem Aftab, film writer and critic for The Independent, Ellen Mara De Wachter, writer and curator (Frieze Magazine etc) Deborah Levy, twice Booker-nominated author, Catherine Loveday, Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience, Stephen Leslie, photographer (also hosting a photography workshop).  Hosted by the curators and agency-for-change Birds’ Eye View’s Mia Bays (producer of Oscar-winning and multi-BAFTA nominated films) and Jo Duncombe (BEV curator and creative producer Influencer Programme). Plus, a photography workshop to follow.