Film
Documenteur + Uncle Yanco
Varda captures the yin and yang of California life: Uncle Yanco grooves on the vibes of sun-kissed 60s bohemia, while Documenteur, about a woman and son searching LA for a home, reveals the melancholic flipside.
1981
This moving work of autobiographical fiction follows a young French woman in Los Angeles as she copes with a recent breakup and wanders the city in search of a home for her and her son. Aptly subtitled “An Emotion Picture,” the mysterious, serenely melancholic Documenteur captures Varda’s ambivalent feelings about America.
1967
Varda’s first American film—in which she journeys to meet a long lost bohemian relative living in Sausalito—is a freewheeling family affair that grooves on the good vibes of sun-kissed 60s California.
Go to the movies just once a month and a BAM membership pays for itself.
Varda’s wildly funny take on the hippy-dippy oddity of LA in the 60s.
Agnès Varda trains her inquisitive camera on the Black Power movement and LA’s street art.
Jacques Demy’s tender, pastel love letter to the “real” LA.