Dr. Kelley Conway will do a presentation on French filmmaker Agnès Varda before the screening of Varda’s film Visages, villages/Faces Places.
Dr. Conway is Chair of the Film Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is interested in French film of all eras, filmmakers’ creative processes and their concrete working conditions, the relationships between film and other arts, and the theoretical and practical issues relating to national and transnational cinema. Her first book, Chanteuse in the City (University of California, 2004), examines the intersections between popular song and 1930s French cinema through the figure of the realist singer. Her second book, Agnès Varda (University of Illinois Press, 2015), explores Varda’s key films and installations, focusing on her aesthetic commitments, working methods, and shifting modes of production. She teaches courses on French Film, European Art Cinema, and Women and Film.