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Not much has changed since this was filmed... Ceci n'est pas Tournai madamme!The last shot of Twin Towers was a beautiful homage to some buildings that are still there today, unless something has happenned to them i am not aware of.

in a way, it's like time in that old place suspends.

News from Home Chantal Akerman, France/Belgium/West Germany, 1977, 85m. This list is for scripts or source material written or co-written by women. The thing I found most remarkable is that by hearing these letters, we get a sense of Akerman herself, like watching a silhouette form before our eyes. For example in Jeanne Dielman (1975), one of her best-known films which shows three days in the life of a forty-year old woman who works occasionally as a prostitute. 85 mins  

I don’t know what happened after the letters stopped being read in a language I understood, but after 80 minutes of reading the words of a woman devoted to her daughter, I felt like I knew anyway. Film data from TMDb. Now, instead of getting the text of the letters via subtitles integrated into the frame, I'm hearing them amid the cacophony of the film's street scenes. News from home, released in 1977, is a sort of follow-up…

Après avoir vu Je, tu, il, elle et No Home Movie ces derniers mois, j'ai failli lancer la serviette et dire adieu à Chantal Akerman.

For 50 years, Film at Lincoln Center has been dedicated to supporting the art and elevating the craft of cinema and enriching film culture. Length: 85’ In French with English subtitles. Using mostly static footage of New York City with the sound not always particularly matching the action, Akerman reads off letters from her mother. One hand: this is why I don't want my kids ever to leave home. The artist Moyra Davey, whose exhibition Speaker Receiver is on view until September 12 at Kunsthalle Basel, has selected the film News from Home by Chantal Akerman. This is the New York I believe in. Akerman's unforgettable time capsule of the city is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection. Chantal Akerman, the Belgian filmmaker, lives in New York. Esse filme é a prova de que algo tão simples pode ser tão poderoso, ao nos mostrar essas imagens da cidade de Nova Iorque enquanto recita as cartas de sua mãe, Akerman explora as rotinas e as possibilidades que essa pode gerar.

1976 Ism Ism Manuel DeLanda, USA, 1979, 16mm, 9m.

“When you see the images,” Akerman explained, “you realize that New York has nothing to do with European ideas about it. More details at

Chantal Akerman, France/Belgium/West Germany, 1977, 85m, Ism Ism In 1968, she studied drama in Paris and appeared before the public with short and experimental films. Its not a bad film by any means, it's just not a easy film to digest and I would probably need to rewatch it again to finally grab on to it. To my Anglophone ears, that language swap radically changes the audio/image relationship. Her films normally deal with the role of women.

Before today, I didn't know Akerman had made a version where she reads her mother's letters in English rather than French. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply.

seeing nothing on those final shots of New York, as it fades into the distance and is replaced by the blues of the water, made me think of the time when there will be no words left from…. A parent constantly bothers their child after they've left their nest for the Big City...Mundane loading docks and Subway corridors are presented as alien and unexplored space, with her camera slowly analyzing every part of their old construction. This….

“OPEN UP GAPS / IN THE PERVERSE BODY OF THE CITY, ” screams DeLanda’s neon-hued graffiti, scrawled across Manhattan buildings, “SO UNCONSCIOUS DESIRE / CAN BURST OUT / AND SHORT CIRCUIT / THE SYSTEM OF MEANING.” He achieved this directive by elaborately defacing subway advertisements, grafting bits of one model’s face onto another to yield charmingly grotesque collages. Manuel DeLanda, USA, 1979, 16mm, 9m, Guerillère Talks  The slow automotive crawl up 10th Avenue reminded me of the one time I went to NYC for a few days and spent a good portion of one just walking down the post-industrial west side.

Though better known as a philosopher, Manuel DeLanda had an earlier life as an experimental filmmaker, and ISM ISM declares its intentions at the outset.

i thought about what it means to leave one home, something safe and familiar, to make a new home. CH-4051 Basel, Tue / Wed / Fri 11am–6pm Close to 300 users submitted a list…. i wondered if marion ever wrote to lady bird when she was in college the way chantal's mother did. Kunsthalle Basel Her works were shown, among others, at the Venice Biennial (2010) and at the Documenta 11 in Kassel (2002). Admission: 12.-/For members of the Basler Kunstverein 6.- The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away. But as affecting as her work is—and News from Home, soundtracked to Akerman reading her the alternately doting, melancholy and passive-aggressive letters sent to her by her mom, is acutely painful at times—it is more accurate to say that the director best understood the applications of structuralism not merely to cinema formalism but to the patterns of quotidian life.

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I’m not sure when I first saw “News From Home”, but I know I watched it in 2005 for a class I taught in Geneva called “Walking in the City”. “When you see the images,” Akerman explained, “you realize that New York has nothing to do with European ideas about it.

Equally punk is, , the debut effort by Super-8 luminary Vivienne Dick. Knowing nothing going in, I was pleasantly surprised to discover what this film was. ISM ISM preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Chantal Akerman’s mother was a profound influence on the filmmaker throughout her career and occupies the heart of Akerman’s most personal works.

Comme dans les deux films mentionnés plus tôt, il y a bien un effet somnifère dans News from Home.

Watch new releases & restorations available nationwide and support FLC in our Virtual Cinema >>, Though better known as a philosopher, Manuel DeLanda had an earlier life as an experimental filmmaker, and, declares its intentions at the outset. With the use of strong images, the film describes minutely the ritualized cycle of those days, the perfectly organized and regulated life which runs formalized and unemotional. you know you can always return and things would fall back into place, but everything would look a little different. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Length: 85’ Filmed images of the City are accompanied by the texts of Chantal Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. Emptiness, and metal and stone, infused with dusty, fragile, ancient faces, shielding the flow of blood that so ceaselessly moves forward, ever so forward, so backward, so forward; and the streets continue and twist, and the blood becomes a grid, and the grid expands; and with these faces come homes, and far away from these homes comes partially obstructed news, news of emptiness, infused with dusty, fragile, novel life. Recs welcome! Akerman’s unforgettable time capsule of the city is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection. “OPEN UP GAPS / IN THE PERVERSE BODY OF THE CITY, ” screams DeLanda’s neon-hued graffiti, scrawled across Manhattan buildings, “SO UNCONSCIOUS DESIRE / CAN BURST OUT / AND SHORT CIRCUIT / THE SYSTEM OF MEANING.” He achieved this directive by elaborately defacing subway advertisements, grafting bits of one model’s face onto another to yield charmingly grotesque collages.

I love Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23, Ouai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles so I was quite excited to check this out and, I don't really know what to think.