TagAgnès Varda

Why does ‘Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse’ make us reexamine society through the act of gathering?

This blog post explores how the act of gathering, as depicted in Agnès Varda’s documentary ‘Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse’, prompts us to reconsider the relationship between individual lives, society, art, and ethics.   “I’m filming people who collect discarded things to survive. Like writing a diary, I record them and record myself.” In the past, commoners would often bend over to...