Events

Pioneering filmmaker Agnès Varda has spent more than 50 years making radical films and art installations at the intersection of fiction, documentary, and autobiography. This March, join us at CinéSalon for a special tribute to her perpetually influential and inventive work.

On February 28, in lieu of CinéSalon, Agnès Varda will be at FIAF for a special talk about her recent turn toward visual artist in advance of her first-ever exhibition in NYC. View Details

The rest of March will be dedicated to some rarely-screened works from her œuvre. The series will conclude with Jacques Demy’s—her late husband—debut film Lola, featuring an original song by Varda.

Please note, there will be no regular CinéSalon screenings on February 28 due to the special talk.

Films in French with English subtitles unless otherwise noted.

Wildly imaginative illustrator Hervé Tullet—best known for the beloved children’s book Press Here—opens the 2017 Tilt Kids Festival with the first-ever exhibition of his work in New York. School tours of the exhibit will be organized over the course of its run, guided by Teaching Artist Amélie Gaulier, who was trained by Tullet.

Free and open to the public

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Tilt Kids Festival goes old school with a tribute to the photobooth, precursor to the selfie, in the FIAF Gallery. Capturing the spontaneity of photography before the advent of the delete button, a hands-on workshop will teach kids how to compose a narrative in four frames.

A special jury will select workshop images to be displayed in large scale during the exhibition from March 18-April 26.

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Conference organized by Claudie Bernard (NYU) and 
Chantal Massol (Université Grenoble-Alpes)

Session I:  9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Introduction
Chantal Massol
Nouvelle et roman dans l’écosystème médiatique (1860-1880)
Corinne Saminadayar-Perrin (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier)
Pour une poétique historique des dispositifs de la nouvelle dans le journal
Marie-Eve Thérenty (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier)
Madame de Staël’s Strange Bedfellows:  Novella and Novel (1787-1807)
Rachel Corkle (Borough of Manhattan Community College)

Session II:  2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Chiens fidèles, chiens fugueurs: l’histoire de deux histoires du Roi de Bohême de Charles Nodier
Masha Beliaeva Salomon (NYU)
Nouvelle et roman:  le dialogue de deux forms littéraires dans l’œuvre de George Sand
Pascale Auraix-Jonchière (Université Clermont-Auvergne)
Des Confidences à Graziella:  la question du Nom chez Lamartine
Martine Gantrel-Ford (Smith College)
Récit et géologie:  le temps de la mine chez Zola et dans ses sources
Göran Magnus