At the sea shore, a goat, a child, and a naked man. This is a photograph taken in 1954 by Agnès Varda. The goat was dead, the child was named Ulysses, and the man was naked. Starting from this frozen image, the film explores the real and the imaginary.
Direction
Varda turns one photo into a 22-minute detective story about herself.
Editing
Seamless collage of interviews, memories, and deliberate fictions.
Writing
Narration that admits its own unreliability with cheeky charm.
Director
Agnès Varda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Varda originally took the photo in 1954 during a beach holiday with her husband Jacques Demy, years before she became 'the mother of the New Wave.'
This short essentially invents the 'false documentary' format later popularized by filmmakers like Errol Morris and even reality TV confessionals.
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