Agnès Varda on gleaning, plus other free public open video lectures from the European Graduate School

Agnès Varda, French director, photographer and filmmaker discussing filmmaking and her film Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse/The Gleaners and I, 2000, at the European Graduate School, in 2004 (video 1 of 6). See also 'Beautiful Trash: Agnès Varda’s Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse' by Virginia Bonner at Senses of Cinema

As 'gleaning' is this blog's favourite activity, Film Studies For Free was happy to explore the European Graduate School (EGS) video channel at YouTube. The channel offers access to videos and video clips of great lectures, sessions, and interviews with well-known guest professors, including many filmmakers and film/media academics at the EGS Media and Communication Studies Department, Saas-Fee in Switzerland. You can access another list of older, shorter guest-lecturer, videos/clips (streamed using RealPlayer) at the EGS website, too. See below for the film and media studies highlights (in FSFF's opinion) of both EGS video-lists:

• Slavoj Zizek - Rules, Race, and Mel Gibson. 2006


• Peter Greenaway. Filming and Directing Night Watch 2006


• Sophie Calle - About Sophie Calle 2004


• Atom Egoyan - Citadel 2007


• John Waters - Filth 101. Film, Taste and Philosophy 2000


• Jean-Luc Nancy + Claire Denis. L'Intrus/The Intruder 2007


• Morgan Fisher - About Film and the Richness of Life. 2007


• Agnès Varda. The Things We Leave Behind. 2004 (embedded above)


• Jean Baudrillard. Violence of the Image. 2004


• Chantal Akerman + Catherine Breillat. Film and Theory. 2001


• Peter Greenaway - The Slavery of Music and Sound. 2002


• Peter Greenaway. Opera, Film, and Death. Video 2001


• Slavoj Zizek - On Belief and Otherness. 2002


• Volker Schlöndorff. Circle of Deceit False Witness. 2004


• Barbara Hammer. Film, Creativity and Process. 2004


• Barbara Hammer. Resisting Paradise. Discussion 2005


• Pierre Alferi. Films, Novels and Poetry. 2008

See also the following, shorter, film/media studies-related videos from 1999-2001, archived at the European Graduate School website . Just click on the lecture titles to open RealPlayer files:

• Giorgio Agamben (University of Verona, Italy) "On the State of Exception"


• Claire Denis Film Director "Cinema as Cultural Anthropology"


• Peter Greenaway Film Director "Cinema for the New Millennium"


• Agnes Varda Film Director "On Cléo from 5 to 7"


• Chantal Akerman Film Director "Crossing Cinematic Borders"


• Alain Badiou (Collège International de Philosophie in Paris) "On the Construction of a Truth"


• Jean Baudrillard 'Finalities of Change' (2002)


• Victor Burgin Goldsmiths College, University of London, and University of California, Santa Cruz "Creativity and Unknowability"


• Claude Lanzmann Film Director "On the Destruction of Destruction"


• Slavoj Zizek (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) "On Happiness"


• Wolfgang Schirmacher (European Graduate School) "Philosophy and Media"


• Michael Schmidt "Globalization of Music"


• Peter Greenaway, Film Director "Have We Seen Any Cinema Yet?"