Abstract
As a way of approaching the question of the relationship between cinema and moving image installation, this chapter is devoted to a single filmmaker, Chantal Akerman, and to the exhibition, NOW, a major show of her installation work, held at Ambika P3 in London. This exhibition of seven installations drew on work from several decades and ranged across three continents, exploring a life informed by migration and mobility; the filmmaker’s death a few weeks before the opening changed it into a commemoration of this life. Akerman’s standing as a cinema auteur and the powerful spatial and temporal dynamics in her films make her installation work a particularly rich case study in hybrid moving image forms between the cinema and the gallery. The exhibition, on which she collaborated, gives spatio-temporal form to the major themes of her work and the ways it was shaped by her history.
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Following the release of his film Videogramme einer Revolution in two Berlin cinemas in 1992, which was attended by one person in each cinema on the opening night (Farocki 2010: 73).
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Press release, Marian Goodman Gallery. Online at https://www.mariangoodman.com/sites/default/files/exhibition/press_release_pdf/pr_akerman_mggparis_.pdf. Accessed 1 December 2018.
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‘Akerman fait rentrer en un carré blanc à la Malevitch le politique, la contrebande, les utopies de lʹart, la langue, la fiction, la part de nous- même qui se sentira toujours étrangère à soi, lʹexpérience du paysage.’ ‘Chantal Akerman ‘jʹétais inconsciente des images que je cherchais,’ Libération, 4 June 2003. https://next.liberation.fr/cinema/2003/06/04/j-etais-inconsciente-des-images-que-je-cherchais_435728. Accessed 1 December 2018.
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David Schwarz, ‘Bordering on Fiction: Chantal Akerman’s Journeys Through Time, Space, and History,’ Moving Image Source, July 2 2008. Online at http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/bordering-on-fiction-20080702. Accessed 1 December 2018.
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Butler, A. (2019). NOW and Then. In: Displacements. Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30461-4_2
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