NSB Film School: An Introduction to Agnès Varda [Durham, NC]
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $220 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Victoria Bouloubasis | Thursdays July 24-August 7 | 6:30-10:00 PM | In-Person, Durham, NC [*Please note the later start time!]
French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda has been described as an experimental filmmaker, a hybrid documenteur, and a feminist icon. With a fluidity of form and a commitment to curiosity, she shaped a filmmaking style all her own. Varda famously accepted all and none of the boxes that she was put into. She once said “If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.” At 89, she became the oldest Oscar nominee after a long career and breadth of creative work that inspired hundreds of filmmakers across the globe.
In this three-week course, we'll examine the central theme of Varda's work, which she described as the difference between our images and lived experience: “It seems to me that this dialectic, this ambiguity, this contradiction of the clichés of our mental life and the images of lived life is really the subject of all my films.”
We’ll also explore a character study of Varda herself through three of her most iconic films: Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), Vagabond (1985), and The Beaches of Agnès (2008). These films also show us how memory and time collapse into other narrative devices — autobiographical portrait, a bricolage of mixed media, acting with non-actors — that give Varda’s filmmaking style both whimsy and depth.
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the full- or mid-level tuition tier in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All sliding-scale needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month.Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $220 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Victoria Bouloubasis | Thursdays July 24-August 7 | 6:30-10:00 PM | In-Person, Durham, NC [*Please note the later start time!]
French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda has been described as an experimental filmmaker, a hybrid documenteur, and a feminist icon. With a fluidity of form and a commitment to curiosity, she shaped a filmmaking style all her own. Varda famously accepted all and none of the boxes that she was put into. She once said “If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.” At 89, she became the oldest Oscar nominee after a long career and breadth of creative work that inspired hundreds of filmmakers across the globe.
In this three-week course, we'll examine the central theme of Varda's work, which she described as the difference between our images and lived experience: “It seems to me that this dialectic, this ambiguity, this contradiction of the clichés of our mental life and the images of lived life is really the subject of all my films.”
We’ll also explore a character study of Varda herself through three of her most iconic films: Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), Vagabond (1985), and The Beaches of Agnès (2008). These films also show us how memory and time collapse into other narrative devices — autobiographical portrait, a bricolage of mixed media, acting with non-actors — that give Varda’s filmmaking style both whimsy and depth.
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the full- or mid-level tuition tier in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All sliding-scale needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month.Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $220 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Victoria Bouloubasis | Thursdays July 24-August 7 | 6:30-10:00 PM | In-Person, Durham, NC [*Please note the later start time!]
French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda has been described as an experimental filmmaker, a hybrid documenteur, and a feminist icon. With a fluidity of form and a commitment to curiosity, she shaped a filmmaking style all her own. Varda famously accepted all and none of the boxes that she was put into. She once said “If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.” At 89, she became the oldest Oscar nominee after a long career and breadth of creative work that inspired hundreds of filmmakers across the globe.
In this three-week course, we'll examine the central theme of Varda's work, which she described as the difference between our images and lived experience: “It seems to me that this dialectic, this ambiguity, this contradiction of the clichés of our mental life and the images of lived life is really the subject of all my films.”
We’ll also explore a character study of Varda herself through three of her most iconic films: Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), Vagabond (1985), and The Beaches of Agnès (2008). These films also show us how memory and time collapse into other narrative devices — autobiographical portrait, a bricolage of mixed media, acting with non-actors — that give Varda’s filmmaking style both whimsy and depth.
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the full- or mid-level tuition tier in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All sliding-scale needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month.Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.