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Our interview with Rosylyn Rhee, our first featured documentarist will be coming soon. Here’s a still from her documentary Same Same, but Different

If Only I’d Known Then… Adventures and Misadventures of a First-Time Filmmaker

I am a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. When I told my professors that I wanted to work with film, they said that it was a great idea but with one condition. Rhetoric is a production field. If I want to study movies, I have to make movies, they explained. Make movies? Me? I’d actually made some movies before but standing in front of the camera. I’d arrived to the set in my lovely outfits and waited as film students worked with the mysterious equipment—lights, ...

Mirrors, Rage and Feminism: Sauntering Through Agnès Varda’s World

I have been in love with film since I was a little girl, and having also been a feminist for as long as I can remember, I was infatuated with the women I saw on the screen. From Shirley Temple to Audrey Hepburn, a number of breathtaking faces and vulnerably powerful spirits have become characters in my own life, their essence guiding, questioning, inspiring me like loving ancestors I never met. And yet, it wasn’t until I ran into Agnès Varda through her 2000 documentary The Gleaners and I that I fell in love with a woman who ...

Featured Member

Kym Farmen

Kym is an experimental filmmaker whose work has been shown at many festivals, including the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, Perv Queerotic Film Festival in Sydney Australia, and Athens International Film & Video Festival, where she won Best Experimental Film for Devil’s Dairymaid.
Kym’s work has also been featured in the “Oh Economy, Up Yours!” short film program, which screened at two German feminist/queer conferences and Queer Salon in Berlin.

She is currently working on a witchy trilogy inspired by plants and folklore.

Some of her favorite filmmakers are Wong Kar Wai, Agnès Varda, Vera Chytilova, Jan Svankmajer, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Michel Gondry.

Taking agnès films to Conferences This Fall

agnès films co-founders, Alexandra Hidalgo and Caitlan Spronk, will be giving presentations about our website at two conferences this October. Our first presentation and official unveiling of agnès films will be at the Midwest Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference in Minneapolis. Two weeks after our visit to Minneapolis, we’ll go to Louisville for The Watson Conference. We are looking forward to the discussion that will be generated by these presentations and to welcoming new members to our community.