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A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda, is the book by award- winning film critic Carrie Rickey.


Rickey traces Varda’s three remarkable careers—as still photographer, as filmmaker, and as installation artist. She explains how Varda was a pioneer in blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, using the latest digital technology and carving a path for women in the movie industry. She demonstrates how Varda was years ahead of her time in addressing sexism, abortion, labor exploitation, immigrant rights, and race relations with candor and incisiveness. She makes clear Varda’s impact on contemporary figures like Ava DuVernay, Greta Gerwig, Barry Jenkins, the Safdie brothers, and Martin Scorsese, who called her one of the Gods of cinema. And she delves into Varda’s incredibly rich social life with figures such as Harrison Ford, Jean-Luc Godard, Jim Morrison, Susan Sontag, and Andy Warhol, and her nearly forty-year marriage to the celebrated director Jacques Demy.

Suchita talks to Carrie about this most important book on Agnes Varda who defined the French New Wave, inspired an entire generation of filmmakers, and was recognized with major awards at the Cannes, Berlin, and Venice Film Festivals, as well as an honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards.

Digs:

1) Varda and her relationships with other Artists. She got to the essence very fast. Her ability to connect with people as a photographer and storyteller was immemse.

2) Transforming from still image to moving pictures to 3 dimensional spaces- almost like a 3 Act of life!!

3) The approach as a filmmaker that was so distinct from her director husband Demy. Her approach was to discover deeper aspects of things.

4) Varda started making movies without knowing anything about movies- without having even have watched many films- and so she found her own language, her own grammar.

5) Opening up to arts, creativity and filmmaking to create a new syntax.

6) Truffaut's non acceptance of Varda as a director and his reviews in Cahiers du cinema.

7) A very imporant difference between the French and the American studios financing movies-

8) How photography taught her to capture the decisive moment!

9) 1958 when her film got into the Cannes festival was she accepted into the community of french filmmakers and new wave filmmakers?

10) The long marriage to another brilliant filmmaker Demy

11) Varda's relationship with Jim Morrison and his death- and how his funeral was for less than 8 minutes!

12) Varda with Warhol, Susan Sontag, Truffaut.

13) Scorses's immense admiration for Varda.


Enjoy this longish episode, and check out the book that is out now !!

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What is considered a good film in today's over saturated content market ?
I saw a post by a film critic on 47 Indian language films getting released in a day and how is that justifying the audience going and watching the films.

And that became the germ of this episode-
Our guest for today is the CEO of distribution and film services vertical at the UFO MOVIEZ , Mr. Pankaj Jaysinh.

He has worked closely with the distribution department of Warner bros, Columbia Tri-Star and Sony pictures.

Some revelations:

1) Do people go and watch films because they are good? Do we want to see good story telling or we want other cherries with it?

2) Everyone is here to make monies -so a good film , smaller films gets picked up
Every movie small or big has a space.

4)Has the definition of a good film changed?

5)distribution is getting more and more professional dynamic and hands on

And the road maps that small filmmakers and small films should know before they embark on their journey.

TUNE IN NOW!

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This snacky episode of THE ARTISTS podcast condenses our year 2023,our journey, insights, memorable moments and the most heard episodes.

"At the beginning of the year, we kicked off with our 115th episode, delving into the making of 'Joyland' with one of our favourite filmmakers. In total, we've clocked 27 episodes, averaging around 2 and a half episodes each month, even with a festive break and our other commitments. Not too shabby!"

According to Spotify Wrapped data, our most downloadable episode was number 123, '9000 Feature Length Films.' Thank you to all the amazing guests who contributed to the diverse discussions on our podcast. Your engagement, messages, and social media tags have meant the world to us." Also our episode 121 on REACHING ACTORS was specially acknowledged by a lot of listeners- genuinely trying to make good cinema. We had a good listenership of Ep 130 the only episode on documentaries. We also spoke at length on audience in small towns in Ep 139.

We didn't shy away from controversial topics either.

In our snacky episodes, we ranted about ChatGPT, algorithms, and even took on the Oscars.

Our special series on "artists and mental health" covered crucial topics like synchronicities, forgiveness therapy, ambition, vulnerabilities—all vital qualities in the life of an artist."

"We dived into some significant events, such as the WGA strike in episode 126. Exploring the business side, we shared insights on building arts and culture startups in episode 136 and discussed the genius of Shakespeare in episode 140. Not to forget, our deep dives into Oppenheimer and Barbie in our snacky episode."

FOLLOW OUR FRESHLY BREWED INSTA HANDLE: THE.ARTISTSPODCAST

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Megan Suri has acted in two prominent indie films as the main lead- The Miseducation of Bindu and Dramarama. She takes us through her journey of being an actor and getting work: 
1) Working on the craft rather than focus on getting an agent 
2) Dealing with rejections which is 99% of the time 
3) Believing in something greater and the energy and force out there that is taking you in the right direction 
4)Keep the journey free-flowing and enjoy the process
5) Keeping yourself stable despite hitting the wall!!
Enjoy!!!

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Producing is one of the toughest jobs in making a Film- a skill that is very specialized. A producer goes beyond raising Finances and setting the tone for the right collaborations! 
We talk to the Director Producer and winner of multiple awards Shrihari Sathe:
1) Producing a specialized skill and how to go about it. 
2) Raising finances for your film and beyond. 
3) Where are the indie film producers!
4) What are the things needed for collaborations- starts from trust and building it. 
5) Balancing the role of a director and a producer.
6) Strategizing and selling your film.
7) Budgeting and price point of your film.
8) Does a festival impact the price point of a film?- which kind of films and why? 
9) Change in sales n distribution post-CO VID. 

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Can Beauty/ Aesthetics have a universal definition! How do we define Aesthetics? How does Philosophy influence Art?  
How did the great philosophers-Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Kant- define aesthetics?

We talk to Philosopher/ Author: THEOFANIS TASIS- Find him on his Facebook/ Twitter n Linkedin handle!
1) What is Philosophy in today's times?
2) Philosophy of art
3) What is beauty?/ Perceptions of beauty
4) Plato, Aristotle- Aesthetics by Greek Philosophers
5) Nietzsche, Kant- German Philosophers
6) Phronesis- rationality/ Imagination/ feelings.
7) Not easy to define the rules of Philosophy for its engagement with Art.
8) Digital Humanism- the book
9) Does Philosophy make you a better person/ Creator?
10) Future of philosophy 

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SEMIOTICS, CULTURE, ARTS & MAGRITTE- Here we talk about conceptual arts, paintings, brands, Films.  We talk to  Panos (Panagiotis Dimitropoulos) about various things including :
1) How does culture influence an artist and their artwork
2) The Western and Eastern sensibilities in art
3) Semiotics & Critical thinking
4) Author and the audience- do the audience need to be in the same level as the author to understand their work?
5) Magritte the semiotician
6) Instinctual vs Conscious work
7) A shift in the cultural landscape and its impact on art
8) Active vs Passive audience
9) What kind of experience an artist wants to give its audience

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Altered states of consciousness is currently a trillion-dollar industry. Binaural beats play an important role to hack into your altered states of consciousness for peak performances. Edison and Einstein solved their toughest problems in the theta state. 
We talk to J. S Epperson a musician creating binaural beats- find him: Higher-music.com
We talk about:
1) What are binaural beats and creating them?
2) Types of brain wave pattern- Beta, alpha, theta, Delta, Gamma
3) Binaural beats as a creativity tool and what are the listeners looking for in it.
4) Alpha state for authors and Beta for business- testimonies the left and the right brain
5) How to listen to Binaural beats.
6) Go with the experience.
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A human mind that is programmed to hustle- can it adapt to the philosophy of WU WEI- that was propounded by Lao Tzu
In this snacky episode, we lay a few groundworks to make life better and Quality -driven by choosing Wu Wei.  
1) Attentiveness - focus and concentration for long hours 
2) Do the right actions or only what is needed
3) Get out of your own way and let go
Share your experiences.

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We are exploring and understanding how can sound vibrations and aligning to a certain frequency can enhance our creativity and also how to differentiate between sound and noise. And we are chatting with Joanna Mcewen- Find her TED TALK HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLSsqCI7NIE
And find her: beingofsoundhealth.co.uk

1) Understanding energy and frequency.
2) Raising Vibrations directly proportional to serendipitous moments
3) When we are stressed everything contracts
4) Singing n humming to raise your frequency
5) Using Polyvagal Theory
6) 15 mins Sound Bath.

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