Leica SL2-S

Like the cat Zgougou, mascot immortalized by the logo of Ciné-Tamaris, Agnès Varda had several lives – photographer, filmmaker, documentarian, visual artist –, constantly blurring the lines between fiction and documentary, reality and imaginary, poetry and activism, a gaze focused on others and introspection.

Grenoble est une ville des Alpes cerclée de hautes montagnes d’où l’on ne voit jamais l’horizon. À la saison froide, le soleil peut ainsi apparaître puis disparaître brutalement plusieurs fois par jour.

In 2017, the Ministry of Culture offered cinematographer Guillaume Schiffman to honor him by making him “Knight of the National Order of Merit.” Being offered that so-evocatively named reward pleased the man no end... but he never finished filling the proper documents and never went to fetch it.