Chantal Akerman: Four Films

Product Description ------------------- Chantal Akerman was a filmmaker whose works are exercises in pure independence, creativity and art. Each Akerman film is a world to be explored on it's own terms, and her viewers must give themselves over completely to the experience of the film and watch with an open mind. Chantal Akerman was a filmmaker whose works are exercises in pure independence, creativity and art. Each Akerman film is a world to be explored on it's own terms, and her viewers must give themselves over completely to the experience of the film and watch with an open mind. 1: FROM THE EAST (D'EST) 2: SOUTH 3: FROM THE OTHER SIDE 4: DOWN THERE (LA-BAS) Run time : 6 hours and 48 minutes Review ------ Comparable in force and originality to Godard or Fassbinder, Chantal Akerman is arguably the most important European director of her generation. --J. Hoberman, The Village Voice The films of Chantal Akerman are the single most important and coherent body of work by a woman director in the history of the cinema. --Film Center Gazette of the School of the Art Institute Akerman the filmmaker came of age at the same time as the new age of feminism, and her films became key texts in the nascent field of feminist film theory. Feminism posed the apparently simple question of who speaks when a woman in film speaks (as character, as director ...); Akerman insisted convincingly that her films' modes of address rather than their stories alone are the locus of their feminist perspective. The many arguments about what form a "new women's cinema" should take revolved around a presumed dichotomy between so-called realist (meaning accessible) and avant-garde (meaning elitist) work; Akerman's films rendered such distinctions irrelevant and illustrated the reductiveness of the categories. --Professor Janet Bergstrom, UCLA, in and Sound P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Director ------------------ Born in Brussels, Belgium in 1950, Chantal Akerman was a filmmaker whose work gaves new meaning to the term "independent film." An Akerman film is an exercise in pure independence, creativity and art. Her viewers must give themself over completely to the experience of the film and watch with an open mind. Strong themes in her films include women at work and at home, women's relationships to men, women, and children, food, love, sex, romance, art, and storytelling. Each Akerman film is a world to be explored on its own terms. Her films are the subject of numerous books including Identity and Memory: The Films of Chantal Akerman by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster and Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everday by Ivone Margulies. Chantal Akerman died in Paris, France in 2015, having forever changed the history of cinema. See more ( javascript:void(0) )

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