Moving Images, Understanding Media

Chapter 5 Personal Expression and Studio Production 181

Th is independent strategy is seen throughout the fi lmmaking world.

French director Agnès Varda has maintained a long career in which she has

led her own production company and has made fi lms that have established

her highly personal integration of community life and a spontaneous method

and style in her fi lms. Varda has created some of the most innovative and

free-spirited short and feature fi lms of her time shooting with an impressively

wide range of approaches: feature fi lm productions in 35mm; documentary-

sized crews using 16mm cameras; videotape; and digital video.

Agnès Varda, Jim Jarmusch, and other contemporary fi lmmakers have

created movies at the margins of current production standards and propelled

Figure 5-13 Actor Roger

Livesay standing at right,

facing Emeric Pressburger

and Michael Powell who

are seated to actress Kim

Hunter’s right in a production

meeting for A Matter of Life

and Death. (Courtesy Getty

Images)

Figure 5-14 Agnès Varda,

standing at left next to the

camera, directs One Sings,

the Other Doesn’t. (Courtesy

Roger Viollet/Getty Images)

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