CHAPTER 4 Ageless: Akerman’s avatars

Chamarette, Jenny (2019). CHAPTER 4 Ageless: Akerman’s avatars. In: Schmid, Marion and Wilson, Emma eds. Chantal Akerman: Afterlives. Legenda, pp. 54–65.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv16km0vw.11

Abstract

Chantal Akerman was only 18 when she made her first short film, Saute ma ville. The figure of the young woman, played by Akerman, radically and violently disrupts the domestic space of her apartment, transgressing all of the domestic meticulousness later portrayed in elongated detail in Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles from 1975. Of all the films of Akerman that I have watched, this angry, young, singing woman returns to me over and over again. In this vision, there is so much farcical, explosive, rabid anger: a mercurial state of selfrebellion that burns under the surface of...

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