D’Est by Chantal Akerman
A truly immense journey
A few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Chantal Akerman set out on a journey through Eastern Europe: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Ukraine. She filmed three symbolic actions that recur throughout the film: walking, driving and waiting. In doing so, Akerman told the story of people in transit or in exile in countries that no longer seemed to truly exist.
- Date
- 18:00 — 20:00
- Location
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Box 1
Born in Brussels, Chantal Akerman (1950–2015) was one of the most influential film-makers of her generation. Among her best-known works is Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), a film that brought a woman's everyday life to the screen in a strikingly original way.
The screening accompanies the exhibition A truly immense journey and is organised in collaboration with the Royal Film Archive of Belgium - CINEMATEK and the Chantal Akerman Foundation.
About the exhibition
A truly immense journey guides you through the forces that have set people, ideas and artistic forms in motion from the early 20th century to the present day. The exhibition spans modern icons such as Lygia Clark, Sonia Delaunay, Alberto Giacometti, Natalia Goncharova, Wifredo Lam and Henri Matisse, alongside international and Brussels-based contemporary artists such as Sammy Baloji, Edith Dekyndt and Hana Miletić. The exhibition features more than 350 works, predominantly from the Centre Pompidou and Kanal, but also from numerous public and private collections in Belgium.