Agnes Varda, one of the founding filmmakers of the French New Wave, and recently acclaimed for her meditative documentary "The Gleaners and I," compiles three short cine-essays in her new film CINEVARDAPHOTO. Together the films present an exploration into Varda's growth as a photographer and filmmaker, each examining the subject of still photography through video and celluloid. "Ydessa, the Bears, and etc..." (2004) focuses on one woman's art exhibit of vintage photographs featuring people holding teddy bears. In "Ulysse" (1982) Varda dissects a photograph she took of a naked man on a beach, with a dead goat in the foreground and a child named Ulysse between the goat and the man. And "Salut les Cubains" (1963) consists of 1,800 black and white photographs taken by Varda right after the Cuban revolution, said by The New York Times to be a "perfect time capsule of newly found paradise on the verge of hell."

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