Artık Toplayıcılar ve Ben Filminde Seyircisinin Yaşam Gücünü Arttıran Bir Görüntü Toplayıcısı Olarak Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda as an Image Gleaner, Who Increases the Vital Force of Audience in Gleaners and I Movie

Summary/Abstract: One of the distinctive features of Agnès Varda’s renown documentary film Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (Gleaners and I, 2000) is its potential to give vital force to the audience (after the screening and at times it is recalled). In this article, three resources of this vital force will be discussed. These are claimed to be the positioning of Varda herself as “an image gleaner woman filmmaker” within her own documentary; the foundational characteristics of her way of filmmaking that she developed along her life and named as cinécriture (cinewriting); and authentic relationships built up between the film and its audience, respectively. Varda stays open to encounters and dialogue in this “wandering-road-documentary” (Varda, 2000b). She reconsiders her body, thoughts and emotions at each encounter with the narratives of the social actors of her film. She departs to the road with the artists in collaboration; opens space in her film to the social actors whom she has gone into dialogue during encounters; creates intervals to her audience to be able penetrate into her film; edits the film by eroding herself in a self-reflexive manner. While she includes expressions of her emotions and images of her own body into this film, she reconsiders her thoughts on the flow of life, eroding effect of time, and coming of death…

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