Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967

Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967

2022 · 4 min · ★ 7.4 · Documentary

Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed 42nd Street in NYC in 1967, filming crowds of passers-by to the beat of the Doors. Recovered from the French director's boxes, with images of Varda, Pasolini and New York. Pasolini is shown walking in the Big Apple (where he went to present 'Hawks and Sparrows').

Directed by Agnès Varda

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