Criterion Channel programmer Penelope Bartlett discusses the films in Shorts for Days: Women Auteurs.
Up Next in Shorts for Days: Women Auteurs
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Lick the Star
Directed by Sofia Coppola • 1998 • United States
Sofia Coppola made the following 16 mm short film in 1998, the same year she began production on THE VIRGIN SUICIDES.
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Uncle Yanco
Directed by Agnès Varda • 1968 • France
In her effervescent first California film, Agnès Varda delves into her own family history. The short documentary UNCLE YANCO features Varda tracking down a Greek emigrant relative she’s never met, discovering an artist and kindred soul leading a bohemian l...
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Saute ma ville
Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1968 • Belgium
Made when the director was just eighteen, Chantal Akerman’s debut film is a blistering first expression of what would become one of her major themes: women’s confinement in and rebellion against the domestic sphere. Akerman plays a young woman who, al...
