Art as an act of remembering. Art as an act of empathy. Faces Places — with Villages Visages as its original French title — is a gift of kindness. It’s a documentary about director Agnès Varda and photographer J.R. traveling the French countryside in a van outfitted with a giant industrial printer. Townsfolk line up to have their photos taken, printed and plastered on various structures around town. The documentary is part ethnography, part performance art. Of course performance art is in itself a cultural artifact that speaks to the persuasions and practices of the artists at a given time. As best as I can describe it, Face Places is an ouroboros loop of ethnographic expression.
Faces Places
Faces Places
Faces Places
Art as an act of remembering. Art as an act of empathy. Faces Places — with Villages Visages as its original French title — is a gift of kindness. It’s a documentary about director Agnès Varda and photographer J.R. traveling the French countryside in a van outfitted with a giant industrial printer. Townsfolk line up to have their photos taken, printed and plastered on various structures around town. The documentary is part ethnography, part performance art. Of course performance art is in itself a cultural artifact that speaks to the persuasions and practices of the artists at a given time. As best as I can describe it, Face Places is an ouroboros loop of ethnographic expression.