Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman
Nov 19 1984
•0h 8m
•Documentary, TV Movie
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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Chantal Akerman
Self
Aurore Clément
Self
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