ABOUT US
A dialogue between film, cello and text.
The film is Saute ma ville, Chantal Akerman’s first short film (1968). With her are her silences, her burlesque and serious gestures, her ritornellos. The cello is the music of Bartok, Prokofiev and Janacek, a fiery energy, a mix of colors, popular themes and profound songs. The text is Chantal Akerman’s book Une Famille à Bruxelles, like a whisper that never ends, like a prayer.
The film will be repeated three times. Each time, the encounters between gestures and sounds, between ritornellos and murmurs, between words and silences, will be placed differently on the images.
Each time in a new arrangement of time. With Chantal.
Each time in a new arrangement of time.
With Chantal.
“ A rare and disconcerting installation that questions everyone’s view of Chantal Akerman’s protean work.”
MUSIC
Sonata, Presto / Melodia, Béla Bartók; Leoš Janáček, Moravian Poem, arrangement by Sonia Wieder-Atherton; New York Quartet, Sonia Wieder-Atherton; Jewish Prayer (traditional) arrangement by Sonia Wieder-Atherton; Cadenza from Symphonie concertante, Op.125, Sergei Prokofiev
FILM
Saute ma ville, Chantal Akerman, 1968
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credits & thanks
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
The Chantal Akerman Foundation
PRODUCTION
Walter Films
PHOTOS
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