Chantal Akerman : Moving Through Time and Space

by Akerman, Chantal

• ISBN13: 9780977802852
• ISBN10: 097780285X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-22
• Publisher: Blaffer Gallery

Summary

Since 1968, Brussels-born, Paris-based Chantal Akerman has produced over 50 film and video works, in the genres of documentary and French New Wave-inspired fictional narrative. She is one of the foremost auteur-directors working today, yet she has never had a solo museum exhibition in the United States, nor has there been significant scholarly inquiry into her body of work. Her early experiments with Structuralist, Marxist and Feminist filmmaking have expanded what is possible in film today. Asserting Akerman's contribution to the genre, this volume introduces her work to those who have not had a chance to see it firsthand. With interpretive and anecdotal commentary on Akerman's oeuvre, the documentary films covered here have not been explored elsewhere.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. 6
Visions in Passing: From the East (D'est)	p. 10
South (Sud)	p. 18
From the Other Side (De L'Autre Cote)	p. 28
Down There (La-Bas)	p. 40
Women from Antwerp in November (Femmes D'Anvers En Novembre)	p. 50
Artist's Acknowledgments	p. 59
Selected Exhibitions	p. 60
Selected Bibliography	p. 65
Photography Credits	p. 69
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