Shorts for Days: Women Auteurs

Shorts for Days: Women Auteurs

4 Episodes

Themes of teenage rebellion and fraught family dynamics run through these early shorts by groundbreaking directors Sofia Coppola, Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, Jane Campion, and Andrea Arnold.

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Shorts for Days: Women Auteurs

4 Episodes

  • Penelope Bartlett on Women Auteurs
    06:58
    Penelope Bartlett on Women Auteurs
    Episode 1

    Penelope Bartlett on Women Auteurs

    Episode 1

    Criterion Channel programmer Penelope Bartlett discusses the films in Shorts for Days: Women Auteurs.

  • Uncle Yanco
    19:36
    Uncle Yanco
    Episode 2

    Uncle Yanco

    Episode 2

    Directed by Agnès Varda • 1968 • France

    In her effervescent first California film, Agnès Varda delves into her own family history. The short documentary UNCLE YANCO features Varda tracking down a Greek emigrant relative she’s never met, discovering an artist and kindred soul leading a bohemian l...

  • Saute ma ville
    13:33
    Saute ma ville
    Episode 3

    Saute ma ville

    Episode 3

    Directed by Chantal Akerman • 1968 • Belgium

    Made when the director was just eighteen, Chantal Akerman’s debut film is a blistering first expression of what would become one of her major themes: women’s confinement in and rebellion against the domestic sphere. Akerman plays a young woman who, al...

  • An Exercise in Discipline: Peel
    08:54
    An Exercise in Discipline: Peel
    Episode 4

    An Exercise in Discipline: Peel

    Episode 4

    Directed by Jane Campion • 1982 • Australia

    This short, concerning a father disciplining his son whilst on a road trip, went on to win the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival and effectively launched director Jane Campion's feature-filmmaking career.

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