Letter from a Filmmmaker: Chantal Akerman

Letter from a Filmmmaker: Chantal Akerman

8 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Nov. 19, 1984

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?

Letter from a Filmmmaker: Chantal Akerman

8 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Nov. 19, 1984

Letter from a Filmmmaker: Chantal Akerman
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?
Producers Paradise Films, France 2
Original title Lettre d'une cinéaste : Chantal Akerman
Directors Chantal Akerman
Writers

Cast

Chantal Akerman

as Self

Aurore Clément

as Self