Agnès Varda

Mur Murs

Mur Murs

After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate the city. Bursting with color and vitality, Mur Murs is as much an invigorating study of community and diversity as it is an essential catalog of unusual public art.

Mur Murs 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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Film Info

  • France, United States
  • 1981
  • 82 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.37:1
  • French, English

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Collector's Set

The Complete Films of Agnès Varda

The Complete Films of Agnès Varda

Blu-ray Box Set

15 Discs

$199.96

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Eclipse Series 43: Agnès Varda in California

Agnès Varda in California

DVD Box Set

3 Discs

$35.96

Mur Murs
Credits
Director
Agnès Varda
Written by
Agnès Varda
Cinematography
Bernard Auroux
Assisted by
Tom Taplin
Sound
Lee Alexander
Edited by
Sabine Mamou
Music by
Buxtehude
Music by
Carey
Music by
Cruz
Music by
Fiddy
Music by
Healy
Music by
Lauber
Music by
Los Illegals
Music by
Parker
Murals by
Terry Schoonhoven
Murals by
John Wehrle
Murals by
Arthur Mortimer
Murals by
Jane Golden
Murals by
Kent Twichell
Murals by
Richard Wyatt
Murals by
Willie Herron
Murals by
Harry Gamboa
Murals by
Arno Jordan
Murals by
Judy Baca
Murals by
Cat Felix

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The only female director of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda has been called both the movement’s mother and its grandmother. The fact that some have felt the need to assign her a specifically feminine role, and the confusion over how to characterize that role, speak to just how unique her place in this hallowed cinematic movement—defined by such decidedly masculine artists as Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut—is. Varda not only made films during the nouvelle vague, she helped inspire it. Her self-funded debut, the fiction-documentary hybrid 1956’s La Pointe Courte is often considered the unofficial first New Wave film; when she made it, she had no professional cinema training (her early work included painting, sculpting, and photojournalism). Though not widely seen, the film got her commissions to make several documentaries in the late fifties. In 1962, she released the seminal nouvelle vague film Cléo from 5 to 7; a bold character study that avoids psychologizing, it announced her official arrival. Over the coming decades, Varda became a force in art cinema, conceiving many of her films as political and feminist statements, and using a radical objectivity to create her unforgettable characters. She describes her style as cinécriture (writing on film), and it can be seen in formally audacious fictions like Le bonheur and Vagabond as well as more ragged and revealing autobiographical documentaries like The Gleaners and I and The Beaches of Agnès.

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