The Cinema Of Agnès Varda
Catarina Silva
Developed for the Project course, the book began with the choice of a theme and a text that would later give rise to an artifact. The theme is the cinema of Agnès Varda, and the text is Delphine Bénézet’s The Cinema of Agnès Varda: Resistance and Eclecticism.
The project explores the idea of “gleaning”. In The Gleaners and I (2000), Varda relates the act of gleaning to her own creative process: with a curious, attentive eye she gathers ordinary everyday things and turns them into material for her films.
From this concept, the aim was a reading experience based on discovery, discontinuity and the unexpected. Images are set against the text with tight margins, elements drift to the edges of the page, and the page numbers — deliberately loud and never in a fixed place — heighten the sense of unpredictability. All this tension and discontinuity recreate the idea of “stumbling upon” things, like Varda’s chance encounters with everyday objects, such as the heart-shaped potato she finds in The Gleaners and I. The lightweight paper reinforces the experience, allowing show-through and overlaps between pages.
Imprint / Technical Rider:
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 210 × 297 × 10 mm; 156 pages
Materials: Munken Lynx 90 g.
Production and finishing: Digital printing.
Resources and credits: ABC Diatype, Dinamo; filmography of Agnès Varda; The Cinema of Agnès Varda: Resistance and Eclecticism, Delphine Bénézet; Adobe InDesign.
Curricular Unit:
Project (1st year)
Supervising Professor:
Eduardo Aires
Keywords: Editorial Design, Text–Image Relationship, Visual Narrative, Materiality
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