Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman

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Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman

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?

Original Title

Lettre d'une cinéaste: Chantal Akerman

Release Date

1984-11-19

Year

1984

Duration

8m

Status

Released

Score

7.25

Cast