Essential Cinema: Documentary & Beyond: Agnès Varda

THE BLACK PANTHERS/UNCLE YANCO

Directed by Agnes Varda

France, 1970/1968, 47min, DCP

Essential Cinema  Documentary & Beyond: Agnès Varda

There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

“Casually electrifying.”
The New York Times on BLACK PANTHERS

“[THE BLACK PANTHERS] is timelier than ever, and a welcome antidote to blaring media headlines — a movie that goes beyond gawking at anger and frustration to highlight its genuine purpose.”
Indiewire

“With its fragmented opening visuals and sounds, bursts of psychedelic color, and images of the San Francisco area, [UNCLE YANCO] is as much an experimental evocation of a place and time as a portrait of a person.”
Criterion Collection

In these two short features, Agnès Varda looks at two very different Bay Area stories. In BLACK PANTHERS, she documents an Oakland protest against the imprisonment of Huey P. Newton, and in UNCLE YANCO, she tracks down a relative who long ago emigrated to America and now lives an unconventional life in Sausalito.

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