Part of our continuing partnership with the online film journal, cléo. Every month, cléo will be presenting a great film to watch on our video on demand platform. In conjunction, we'll be hosting an exclusive article by one of their contributors. This month Mallory Andrews writes on Agnès Varda's Mur Murs, which is available to watch starting today in the Us, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
They can be found on the margins of Los Angeles. Driving down the highway, something catches the corner of your eye, peeking out from the side of a building: one of the ubiquitous murals of L.A. Unlike the prominently situated billboards that plaster the freeways with crass messages to Want, Demand, and more importantly Buy, these public artworks offer a fascinating counter-movement to this commercial blare, and this was how they first caught French director Agnès Varda’s attention during her time in the city.
They can be found on the margins of Los Angeles. Driving down the highway, something catches the corner of your eye, peeking out from the side of a building: one of the ubiquitous murals of L.A. Unlike the prominently situated billboards that plaster the freeways with crass messages to Want, Demand, and more importantly Buy, these public artworks offer a fascinating counter-movement to this commercial blare, and this was how they first caught French director Agnès Varda’s attention during her time in the city.
- 11/19/2014
- by Mallory Andrews
- MUBI
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