Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman
7.5
November 19, 1984
8m
DocumentaryTV Movie
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?
Directed by: Chantal Akerman
