Discover the work of one of the most singular cinematic artists, one who produced enormously affecting work with a minimum of means: a static camera, long takes and the simple objects of everyday life.
In 2022, the British magazine Sight and Sound published its list of the best films of all time, assembled every 10 years with votes from curators, scholars, and critics around the world. Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du commerce, 1080 Brussels, made when Akerman was 24, took the #1 spot.
Discover the work of one of the most singular cinematic artists, one who produced enormously affecting work with a minimum of means: a static camera, long takes and the simple objects of everyday life. In South, she poetically reflects on the racially motivated murder of a black man in the American South. In the documentary From the Other Side, she observes and records the stories of Mexican immigrants at the U.S. border. And from a period living in Tel Aviv, Israel, she turns her gaze outward, voyeuristically observing her neighbours through the windows of her apartment, Down There.
Watch this conversation between Chantal Akerman's close collaborator, editor Claire Atherton, and our curator Christopher Small on DAFilms Live.
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