Chantal Akerman (B) »News From Home« Thursday 22:30
In the beginning of the 1970s Chantal Akerman brings a totally different view in the cinema. At first her short and later also long play films take decisive feministic positions. She distances herself in picture and technique radically from the mainstream epic cinema.
In the films from the belgic director one often has the feeling, that almost nothing happens, but nonetheless every piece of her work unfolds a fascinating web of everyday life observation, mind and form experiments. The in the film sealed time as well as picture and language conventions are the main issue of an ongoing reflection, which in “News from Home”, one of the most important films from the director, leads to everlasting meaning shifts and that the film as a media has formal and in content set boundaries. Even the small 16mm camera in “News from Home” proves to be an instrument of power, when it forces a passanger in the depths of an underground Wagon until he disappears from sight.
Programme with the assistance from Oostende
