No Home Movie

director: Chantal Akerman

original title: No Home Movie

country: Belgium

year: 2015

running time: 112 min.

synopsis

Chantal Akerman dedicated this film to her mother, who after her liberation from Auschwitz shut herself up in her home. Akerman accentuates her hyperrealist style through the use of digital technology (cheap DV camera, smartphone), thus capturing not only the closeness of home but also the distance between her mother’s life and modern nomadic existence.

biography

Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) was a central figure of European art cinema. Her work combines experimental approaches with a feminist viewpoint, as in her best-known film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). The Jihlava IDFF has previously shown her documentary Over There (2006), which is set in Israel.

more about film

director:	Chantal Akerman
producer:	Chantal Akerman, Patrick Quinet, Serge Zeitoun
photography:	Chantal Akerman
editing:	Claire Atherton
sound:	Chantal Akerman

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