Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman (1984)
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?
Director: Chantal Akerman
Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Runtime: 8 min
Release Date: November 19, 1984
Cast
- Chantal Akerman - Self
- Aurore Clément - Self
Editing: Patrick Mimouni
Production: Paradise Films, France 2
Country: France
Language: Français
Original Language: fr
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- 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?
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