Uncle Yanco
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In her effervescent first California film, Agnès Varda delves into her own family history. The short documentary Uncle Yanco features Varda tracking down a Greek emigrant relative she’s never met, discovering an artist and kindred soul leading a bohemian life in Sausalito.
Uncle Yanco was restored by the Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata in association with Ciné-Tamaris and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Annenberg Foundation, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and The Film Foundation.
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Cast
- Jean “Yanco” Varda
- Himself
Credits
- Director
- Agnès Varda
- Written by
- Agnès Varda
- Assistant
- Tom Luddy
- Camera
- David Myers
- Camera
- Didier Tarot
- Sound
- Paul Oppenheim
- Sound
- Jacques Maumont
- Edited by
- Jean Hamon
- Music by
- Richard Lawrence
- Music by
- Yannis Spanos
- Music by
- Tomaso Albinoni
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