Gleaning Images From Others And Myself with a Dv Camera: Agnès Varda's The Gleaners And I

Agnès Varda‘s critically acclaimed documentary The Gleaners and I isone of the most exciting and revealing digital works within European auteurist cinema. The all-embracing metaphor of gleaning constitutes a creatively critical reconsideration of some depreciated attitudes in our consumer society. This film essay made of factual and personalmaterials is also a kind of work in progress through which the filmmaker herself calls her life into question and shows her fascination for art and mainly painting.