Screening of the film News from Home by Chantal Akerman
Program:
3 PM: Guided tour of the group exhibition "Férocité à domicile" by curator Oriane Durand
4 PM: Screening of the film News from Home by Chantal Akerman
"Férocité à domicile" explores the ambivalence of the maternal bond through the works of seven artists – Chantal Akerman, Tolia Astakhishvili (with Zurab Astakhishvili, Simon Lässig, and Maka Sanadze), Cudelice Brazelton IV, Rosa Joly, Harilay Rabenjamina, Rosemarie Trockel, Sebastian Wiegand. Through sensitive and contrasting approaches, these artists explore the intimate ways in which this complex relationship shapes our presence in the world.
The film News from Home by Chantal Akerman serves as the starting point for the exhibition, shedding striking light on the complexity of maternal love. Both a refuge and an insidious trap, this love, expressed by the filmmaker’s mother in letters sent to her daughter, who was living in New York, oscillates between tenderness, guilt, and infantilization.
About the film:
Through tracking shots or long static shots of New York (subway, streets, façades) that subtly tell the story of her daily life, the filmmaker reads letters sent from Belgium by her mother, a lifeline that still ties her to her family saga. At the threshold of one another, speech and image eventually merge...
Belgium-France, 1977 / 16mm / Color / 90 min
Voice: Chantal Akerman
Production: Marilyn Watelet, Alain Dahan
Sound: Dominique Dalmasso
Editing: Francine Sandberg
Photography: Babette Mangolte, Luc Benhamou
