Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman (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?

Released

1984-11-19

Genres

Documentary, TV Movie

Runtime

8 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Chantal Akerman

TMDB rating

6.8/10 from 6 votes