“The worst day of my life happened this year,” says independent film programmer Kathleen Sachs.
The program, titled “La Politique des Autres,” aims to give Chicagoans a taste of the wide breadth of artistic work Varda created throughout her life rather than focus on one specific theme.
“You think of Agnès Varda as this woman going places that not a lot of filmmakers, much less female filmmakers, were going at that time,” Sachs says. “Black Panthers [1968], which is probably one of her most well-known shorts, shows her not only engaging with radical groups, radical politics, but kind of being at the forefront of that.”
Program I: Thu 7/11, 7 PM, Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Dr., 847-491-4000, blockmuseum.northwestern.edu. F Program II: Fri 7/12, 7 PM, Filmfront, 1740 W. 18th, filmfront.org. F
