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other filmmakers, and that will be
demonstrated at the Ann Arbor Film
Festival.
Akerman, who was from Belgium,
moved to New York in her early 20s to
pursue filmmaking.
“One of her early films, News From
Home, has static shots with a view of
New York City,” says David Dinnell,
program director for the Ann Arbor
event that will screen some 220 films.
“The soundtrack has her reading let-
ters sent by her mother.
“We see a portrait of the city
through the eyes of the artist and
hear all the emotional, familial con-
nections. The audience, at one time,
is experiencing the exterior and the
interior worlds.”
The last film that Akerman made,
No Home Movie, will be shown at
1 p.m. Sunday, March 20, at the
Michigan Theater.
“It’s very much about her mother,
who was not able to talk about her
Holocaust experiences with the film-
maker until [the end of her life],”
Dinnell explains. “This is an incred-
ibly powerful and poignant portrait
of the woman shortly before her
death.
“Chantal returned to Israel, where
her mother was living and became
very candid about a description of
the woman’s experiences surviving
Auschwitz.”
D’est (From the East) will be shown
at 5 p.m. Friday, March 18, at the
Michigan Theater. It retraces an
Akerman journey from East Germany,
across Poland and the Baltics, to
Moscow after the collapse of the
Soviet Union.
Jem Cohen, influenced by
Akerman, has had films screened at
the Jewish Museum in New York and
will be featured at 9:15 p.m. Friday
also at the Michigan Theater, where
he will present some short films.
“Cohen, based in New York, follows
in the tradition of street photography,”
Dinnell says. “He has an amazing
sense for small poetic details of ordi-
nary life and how ordinary life inter-
sects with larger social and political
issues.”
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