108. Chantal Akerman: News from Home & No Home Movie
Description
We continue our series on Akerman with a double-bill of personal documentaries about her mother, and of home. News from Home immediately follows her seminal Jeanne Dielman, and No Home Movie is the final film of Akerman’s filmography. In this episode, we thread the throughline across Akerman’s career in comparing both films, see the influence of structural and slow cinema, and marvel at her capacity for personal artmaking.
Links:
Celine Sciamma on Chantal Akerman
I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (No Home Movie BTS footage)
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
05:32 Plot summaries and Reactions
17:15 2015 critical reactions to No Home Movie
21:00 Structural films and emotional responses
27:07 Power of the cut
33:41 Akerman and her mother
40:33 Comparing Akerman with Varda
44:36 Private artmaking
48:33 Akerman's career arc
52:13 Preview for next eps
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