- Begin Journaling your daily thoughts and experiences while thinking about the events, the places, the persons, or anything elese that has shaped you into who you are today. (Describe memories of meaningful places, relationships, objects or
experiences.)
- Create a storyboard for a short video self-portrait that visually communicates the personal significance of a place, relationship, object or experience.
- For inspiration watch the film The Beaches of Agnès, a cinematic self-portrait of filmmaker Agnès Varda (an icon in French New Wave films)
In this delightful memoir, award-winning French filmmaker Agnès Varda (Vagabond, Cléo From 5 to 7) employs all the magic of cinema to juxtapose the real and the imagined, the past and the present, pain and joy. For this 81-year-old artist, memories live through her films. In The Beaches of Agnès, she uses film clips, old photos and gorgeous reenactments to revisit her Belgian youth, association with the French New Wave, marriage to director Jacques Demy (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and the making of her movies. You don’t need to know anything about Varda to enjoy this enchanting glimpse into the treasure chest of her memories.
Examples:
https://vimeo.com/81179752
https://vimeo.com/81326924
https://vimeo.com/1709393
https://vimeo.com/2790928
https://vimeo.com/4038051
https://vimeo.com/35181064
https://vimeo.com/57062858
https://vimeo.com/84835301
https://vimeo.com/84610131
https://vimeo.com/84529656
https://vimeo.com/84644945
https://vimeo.com/83643924
https://vimeo.com/83737133
https://vimeo.com/84910997
