Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman (1984)

  • NR
  • 11/19/1984 (FR)
  • Documentary, TV Movie
  • 8m

Overview

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?

Chantal Akerman

Director

Cast

Chantal Akerman's headshot

Chantal Akerman

Self
Aurore Clément's headshot

Aurore Clément

Self

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