Stob analyses Varda’s short 7P., Cuis. S. de b… (à saisir) to demonstrate its radically original take on care, its time, and its cost.
Jennifer Stob
Jennifer Stob is Associate Professor of Art History at Texas State University. She researches at the intersections of aesthetic theory, experimental film, and transnational cinema. Her work on Agnès Varda has appeared in Texte zur Kunst and The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda: Feminist Practice and Pedagogy. Further anthologies to which she has contributed include On Women’s Films: Across Worlds and Generations (2019) and Architectures of Revolt: The Cinematic City circa 1968 (2018). Her book on social space, cinema, and the Situationist International is under contract with Amsterdam University Press.
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