Letter from a Filmmaker: 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?

Release Date

November 19, 1984

Status

Released

Original Title

Cinéma cinémas: Lettre de cinéaste : par Chantal Akerman

Runtime

8min

Budget

Revenue

Language

French

Production Companies

Paradise FilmsFrance 2