Agnès Varda, the “Grande Dame of the French New Wave,” trains her eye on ‘gleaners,’ those who pick at already harvested fields for the odd potato or turnip, who insist on finding a use for what society has deemed useless. Varda’s own ruminations on her life as a filmmaker (a gleaner of sorts), gives her a connection to her subjects that creates a touching human portrait. The LA Weekly describes The Gleaners and I as “a protest film that’s part social critique, part travelogue, but always an unsentimental celebration of human resilience.” Directed by Agnes Varda, France, 2001, 82 min.

Cosponsored with the Department of Cinema and Photography, Cinema on the Edge, the Office of the Provost, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, and the Environmental Studies Program, Ithaca College.