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Cinema is a time-based medium, and duration is one of its great weapons. Sitting in a darkened theater, the passive consumer of movies is beholden to the whims of the filmmaker, forced to wait for the punchline, the kiss,...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
MIAMI, FL - Miami Art Museum (MAM) will present the first U.S. survey of the work of renowned filmmaker and artist Chantal Akerman. Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space features five of Akerman’s multi-media video installations , including a new work commissioned expressly for this show. The third installment in MAM’s innovative collaboration with Miami Art Central, MAC@MAM, Moving Through...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
By Porton, Richard As every cinephile knows, in May 1968 the Cannes Film Festival was brought to a halt by a group of activist filmmakers who interrupted the usual blithe spectacle and expressed solidarity with the rumblings from students that had begun to reverberate in Paris.
MIT World » Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Chantal Akerman This exploration/homage arrives in the form of a lecture/conversation, breaking some conventions, not unlike the object/subject of the event, Chantal Akerman, filmmaker and video artist. Two Akerman experts discuss her work in the kick-off event to an exhibition at MIT's List Visual Arts Center. First, Giuliana Bruno offers history and perspective on Akerman's oeuvre, starting with...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
"Two films literally changed my life. The first one made me decide to become a cinematographer and the desire to see the second one made me travel to New York, which became my home and where I later made...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
Ronald Bergan is one of 3000 volunteers each reading a single page from Marcel Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu as part of Veronique Aubouy's ongoing project, Le Baiser de la Matrice, which'll eventually be 170 hours long:...
Out 1 (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
I find it really hard to understand why so few of Chantal Akerman’s film are available in the United States. From her 1975 classic Jeanne Dielman to her 1993 D’est , both considered among of the best of Akerman’s career (if not the best of each respective decade), Akerman’s films are hard to find, yet each of her films I have seen, other than the disappointing Sud (1999), is more poetic, attentive,...
scanners (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Painter and critic Manny Farber, whose book "Negative Space" is one of the essential collections of visual-arts criticism, has died at the age of 91. Farber's writing was scrappy, unpretentious and iconoclastic, not unlike the films and filmmakers he...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
"A hybrid of city symphony, travelogue, nature film, and personal essay, flâneur films are often distinguished by their use of personal, idiosyncratic narration and a comparably intimate scale of production," writes Livia Bloom, who then focuses on films by...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Life, decay and death are the elemental subjects of Anya Gallaccio's work. Her sculptures and installations, like traditional vanitas paintings, are metaphors for the transience and fragility of life. She has made works with apples and oranges, as well as flowers, that have been left to rot slowly in the Tate, showing how they turn from something beautiful into a fermenting mess.
Out 1 (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
For those of you in the New York area...a new not-for-profit cinema has opened in Harlem at the Maysles Institute (yes...that Maysles). I went there tonight for a (DVD) screening of Jean Vigo's first short film A Propos De Nice and Chantal Akerman's News From Home (recently released in Europe with English subtitles for the very first time...I might have to write about the film in the near future...)...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Michael Jones hears that Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or-winning The Class will open the New York Film Festival, which'll be running from September 26 through October 12. Earlier: Reviews from Cannes. Chantal Akerman's Hotel Monterey is screening at the Camden...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Arts & entertainment: Chantal Akerman's atmospheric films are wreathed in cigarette smoke, and humming with suspense. They leave Adrian Searle gasping for breath
India eNews (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Versatile Indonesian actress Christine Hakim has been named to head the jury for the Asian-Arab section of the 10th Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival to be held in New Delhi July 10-20.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
A traveling exhibit at M.I.T. offers a good opportunity to assess what Chantal Akerman, a hero of the avant-garde cinema, has been up to over the last decade.
