The Video Essay is a joint project of MUBI and FILMADRID International Film Festival. Film analysis and criticism found a completely new and innovative path with the arrival of the video essay, a relatively recent form that has already its own masters and is becoming increasingly popular. The limits of this discipline are constantly expanding; new essayists are finding innovative ways to study the history of cinema working with images. With this non-competitive section of the festival both MUBI and FILMADRID will offer the platform and visibility the video essay deserves. The seven selected works will be premiering online from June 6 - 12, 2022 on MUBI's Notebook. The selection was made by the programmers of MUBI and FILMADRID.
Chantal Akerman: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy by Andrea Nouga Feliu
This video essay highlights the characteristic self-referentiality of Chantal Akerman’s cinema, bringing to the fore the relationship between her first short film, Saute ma ville (1968), starring herself, in which a woman takes her own life, and the real-life outcome of the filmmaker.
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Este video ensayo pone de manifiesto la característica autorreferencialidad del cine de Chantal trayendo a colación en primera instancia la relación entre su primer cortometraje protagonizado por ella misma, Saute ma ville (1968), en el que una mujer se quita la vida, y el desenlace real de la cineasta.