CINE VARDA

Curator Daniela Persico
Guest director Adele Tulli

CINE VARDA

The second event will focus on the unique and transformative practice of Agnès Varda’s work, which has always sought to unite the personal and the political, transcending the limits of cinema through the use of the first person. It is organized by director and researcher Adele Tulli (whose documentaries have been shown at major international festivals and in spaces dedicated to contemporary art) and Daniela Persico, critic and programmer of experimental cinema.

All day long, from 10 a.m., the Citerne space is activated by rare films, shorts and boni by Varda. For the occasion, Daniela Persico has chosen to highlight Salut les Cubains (1963), Ulysse (1983), Ydessa, les ours et etc.(2004), and Les dites cariatides (1984), which explore the construction of a first-person perspective, exploring the world and becoming the voice, gaze and body of the film.

At 6:00 pm, Daniela Persico presents the film Les Plages d’Agnès (2008) in the Salle Michel Piccoli. A journey through Varda’s life, her artistic and intellectual path, and the encounters that marked it. This testamentary work brings together, with its characteristic irony, different approaches to the moving image, testifying to an inexhaustible creativity.

To close this second evening of the CINE VARDA cycle, the film Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse (2000) will be presented at 8:30pm by Adèle Tulli, followed by a discussion with Daniela Persico. This film is a milestone not only in the evolution of documentary cinema, but above all in its ability to capture a new sensitivity to the world, one that is more sustainable and more human.

CINE VARDA PROGRAM

Thursday, April 2, 2026
Curator: Elvira del Guercio
Guest director: Céline Sciamma

Monday, April 27, 2026
Curator : Daniela Persico
Guest director : Adele Tulli

Monday, May 18, 2026
Curator: Anna Masecchia
Guest director: Susanna Nicchiarelli

Over three days and three evenings, three Italian experts and three women directors present films, documentaries, bonus features and shorts by Agnès Varda, in dialogue with films by contemporary women filmmakers.

As presented in the exhibition Agnès Varda, Here and there, Paris-Rome exhibition at Villa Medici, Agnès Varda’s life and work both provoke and maintain correspondences with Italy and Italian cinema. From her film project in Venice , La Mélangite (or Les Amours de Valentin), to her reportage on the strange forms of Villa della Torre, near Verona, to her photographs of great filmmakers such as Visconti and Fellini, Varda is linked to the Italian cultural scene.

Contemporary cinema, its women directors and theorists are all part of the legacy of the woman who changed the face of fiction and documentary cinema, and of stories from a woman’s point of view.

Over three days of screenings, encounters and conversations, Villa Medici presents a selection of films by Agnès Varda, as well as works in dialogue with her work, to shed light on their contemporary resonances and extensions in today’s cinema.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Monday, April 27 – 6-10:30 p.m.
18h – 20h Screening Les Plages d’Agnès
20h30 – 22h30 Screening The Gleaners and the Gleaner
Screenings presented by director Adele Tulli and programmer Daniela Persico
Films in French ST Italian

3€ per session
6€ for the whole evening
Free for SOLO DUO and TRIBU cardholders
The ticket also gives access to the Agnès Varda exhibition , Here and there, Paris-Rome.
Tickets for 6pm session: reservation
Tickets for 8:30pm session: reservation