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').
Cinematography
Varda's instinctive, dancing camera finds poetry in chaos.
Direction
Two masters silently collaborating across language and time.
Director
Agnès Varda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Varda discovered this footage in her own archives decades later, initially forgetting she'd even filmed Pasolini that day.
Pasolini was in New York promoting Hawks and Sparrows, his most overtly political film—meanwhile Varda was pregnant with her daughter Rosalie.
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