No Home Movie

Akerman’s final film is her most forthright and fragile portrait of her relationship with her mother and a searing companion piece to Jeanne Dielman.

  • Director

    Chantal Akerman

  • Belgium-France 2015. 117min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

  • English subtitles

Akerman’s poignant, yet deceptively radical, final film is a profoundly moving portrait of her mother Natalia, a Holocaust survivor, in the months leading up to her death. It comprises a series of vignettes that Akerman ‘composed’ by setting down a digital camera in corners of her mother’s Brussels apartment. Natalia suffered from chronic anxiety all her life – an affliction that fuelled much of her daughter’s creative output.

The screening of No Home Movie on Thursday 13 March 17:50 NFT1 will be introduced by lecturer and writer Dr Julia Wagner.

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