Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman

DocumentaryTV Movie

Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman

Name: Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman
Director: Chantal Akerman
Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Released: 1984-11-19
Duration: 8 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Chantal Akerman, Aurore Clément

November 19, 1984

TMDB7.3· 4

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?