P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
MoMA's Affiliation with P.S.1
Visiting P.S.1
Agnès Varda was the official photographer for the Théâtre National Populaire before she was encouraged by her Left Bank colleagues, at age twenty-six, to make her first feature, La pointe courte (1954). A critical success and a financial failure, many consider La pointe courte to be the birth of the French New Wave. Between La pointe courte and her next feature six years later, Cleo from 5 to 7 (1960) Varda completed three short charming documentaries about places in France that held special meaning for her.