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A Filmmaker's Letter: Chantal Akerman
A Filmmaker's Letter: Chantal Akerman
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A FILMMAKER'S LETTER: CHANTAL AKERMAN

Lettre d'une Cinéaste: Chantal Akerman

Directed by Chantal Akerman
France, 1984
Documentary, Short

Synopsis

Filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking us & herself hard questions. Aurore Clément: a stand-in/proxy, a glam counterpart to Akerman, sporting a drawn-on moustache.What’s cinema for? Who’s it for? If the Mosaic prohibition on making graven images includes film images, where does a Jewish director stand?

Synopsis

Filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking us & herself hard questions. Aurore Clément: a stand-in/proxy, a glam counterpart to Akerman, sporting a drawn-on moustache.What’s cinema for? Who’s it for? If the Mosaic prohibition on making graven images includes film images, where does a Jewish director stand?