Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman 1984

  • 1984-11-19
  • 8m
  • Chantal Akerman
  • France
  • French
  • Paradise Films + 1 more, France 2 (FR2)
  • Documentary
A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a glamorous counterpart to Akerman who sports a drawn-on moustache. What is cinema for? Who is it for? If the Mosaic prohibition on making graven images includes film images, then where does that leave a Jewish filmmaker?

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