Arles Goes to the Movies

Cannes doesn’t have a monopoly on film: cinema also comes to Arles. From Agnès Varda’s contact sheets to Wim Wenders’s Polaroids, the festival is all about the movies.

Henri Cartier-Bresson described cinema as “the after-image.” Photography, on the other hand, comes before. Straddling immobility, fixedness, and movement, these two image regimes find common ground at the Rencontres d’Arles.
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