From the East
Akerman captures the essence, if not the historical particulars, of a region on the move.
-- Emanuel Levy, Variety
From the East
FROM THE EAST retraces a journey from the end of summer to deepest winter, from East Germany, across Poland and the Baltics, to Moscow. It is a voyage Chantal Akerman wanted to make shortly after the collapse of the Soviet bloc "before it was too late," reconstructing her impressions in the manner of a documentary on the border of fiction.
By filming "everything that touched me," Akerman sifts through and fixes upon sounds and images as she follows the thread of this subjective crossing. Without dialogue or commentary, FROM THE EAST is a cinematographic elegy.
By filming "everything that touched me," Akerman sifts through and fixes upon sounds and images as she follows the thread of this subjective crossing. Without dialogue or commentary, FROM THE EAST is a cinematographic elegy.
Genre
Documentary,
Avant Garde,
Auteur Cinema
Web Site
Runtime
107
Language
Russian
Director
Chantal Akerman
Played at
Laemmle Virtual Cinema 10.13.20 - 11.12.20
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