Les dites cariatides1984

What better way to pay tribute to the then fifty-year-old Cinematheque Francaise in one-hundred-fifty seconds than by filming the fifty steps.

1975: the "Year of the Woman." A television station gives seven female filmmakers seven minutes to answer the question "What does it mean to be a woman?"

French (though Russian-born) author Elsa Triolet's youth through the eyes of her husband, Louis Aragon, a French poet and novelist.

For ULYSSE, Agnes Varda grants herself the unusual screen credit of cinecrit, but the exercise in question is actually the titular photograph she took on a beach in 1954.

The final film in the CINEVARDAPHOTO triptych is the oldest, SALUT LES CUBAINS. In 1963, Varda thoughtfully gave order to 1,800 photos that she had recently taken on a trip to Cuba.

The indefatigable Agnes Varda's travels around the world, meeting friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene.