:(
― drash, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 10:40 (eight years ago) link
Wow. I finally caught up with her last year after the release of those exemplary Criterion releases.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 10:44 (eight years ago) link
:-(
She was coming to London to give a masterclass and there was also an exhibition coming up.
http://www.anosamours.co.uk/
New film out soon too.
Can anyone read French, how did she pass away?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 10:45 (eight years ago) link
This is at the end of a near two-year retrospective of pretty much all of her work at (mostly) the ICA (one film a month).
Can't believe this.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 10:47 (eight years ago) link
Can someone post further confirmation when they see it?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 10:50 (eight years ago) link
One of her protégées/disciples/what have you is at NYFF right now.
― That Thin, Wild Mercury Poisoning (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 11:33 (eight years ago) link
rest in peace.
The link above just says more details forthcoming.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 11:55 (eight years ago) link
Good intentions here: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/zac-goldsmith-knock-down-ugly-estates-to-build-better-homes-for-londoners-a3083756.html
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 12:29 (eight years ago) link
aargh wrong thread sorry.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 12:34 (eight years ago) link
According to Le Monde it was a suicide. Such sad news.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 12:42 (eight years ago) link
oh no
― drash, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 12:45 (eight years ago) link
Oh no :((((((
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 12:45 (eight years ago) link
xp
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 12:46 (eight years ago) link
So sad.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 12:51 (eight years ago) link
Her first movie, made at age 18:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx2RNzl-p3Q
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link
sinking in :(
― That Thin, Wild Mercury Poisoning (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
her mom, with whom C.A. was terribly close, died last year; C.A.'s newest film was compiled from interviews she conducted with her mother.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 15:55 (eight years ago) link
this is all very very sad.
if you haven't seen "toute une nuit," you should. it might be my favorite of hers, a long series of nocturnal romantic encounters. it has a nouveau roman feel to it, with the encounters playing out--in an ordered fashion--variations on the theme of coupling and uncoupling.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link
very sad indeed.
the film screens next two nights at NYFF
https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2015/films/no-home-movie/
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/no-home-movie
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
NY Times not reporting on the cause yet, surely it wouldn't be mis-reported
Just struggling with this. Numb.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
Glenn Kenny's piece speaks of "differing accounts" of cause in Brit and French media.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
wtf.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
Maybe it depends on fine point of French grammar that is misunderstood in the UK.
― That Thin, Wild Mercury Poisoning (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
Sorry, not trying to be amusing, it was confusing to me when I looked at the French reports.
― That Thin, Wild Mercury Poisoning (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:30 (eight years ago) link
seems suicide mentioned in all the french language articles
― noɪˈɣiːələx (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
vaguely recall having read how young she was when jeanne dielman was made, nonetheless thought she would have been quite a bit older than 65
RIP
― noɪˈɣiːələx (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
Fernando Croce:
Once at a film class I heard two dudes enthusing about PTA being only 27 when he made BOOGIE NIGHTS. I couldn't resist chiming in: "Akerman, 25, JEANNE DIELMAN."
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
I had completely forgotten that i saw her do that Almayer's Folly Q&A three years ago, which shows that ILX will be helpful as i dodder on.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
so this is sad and awful. I want to know the cause of death because this indeterminacy is ugly, but maybe that's a delayed way of putting away the fact that death is always going to be indeterminate by its nature because someone becomes finally unreachable. what a great, great artist. her films force us to see the everyday and when we find that torturous that disavowal is really interesting. devastating art making. as others have pointed out, funny and beautiful too. and the attention to the SOUND of everyday life in her work (like those train noises in Les Rendez Vous d'Anna) was always so strong. RIP.
― the tune was space, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 16:54 (eight years ago) link
What's the musical about the the shopping mall, Golden Eighties? I recommend that one.
― That Thin, Wild Mercury Poisoning (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
the french press is quite clear it was suicide -- "s'est donné la mort" :(
claire denis has a testimony to akerman at the libération page. strange to remember that denis is (was) older than akerman. but their careers had dissimilar trajectories... denis was 40 before she finish her first feature. akerman was, famously, a major filmmaker by (at the latest) her early 20s.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
Yes, they all word it exactly the same way, little room for doubt.
Here is page you are referring to, I think: http://next.liberation.fr/culture-next/2015/10/06/chantal-akerman-faisait-des-films-avec-sa-chair-sa-peau-sa-vie_1398256
― That Thin, Wild Mercury Poisoning (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
the NYT article has been filled out with more information:
Friends said that Ms. Akerman had been in a dark emotional state after the death of her mother last year, and that she had had breakdowns. She had recently been hospitalized for depression, returning home to Paris 10 days ago, her sister said.
also reporting that cause is "unknown"
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/arts/chantal-akerman-belgian-filmmaker-dies-65.html
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
this might be of some broad relevance
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/mar/15/trauma-second-generation-holocaust-survivors
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:54 (eight years ago) link
Right, just came to post that times link(xpost)
― That Thin, Wild Mercury Poisoning (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
or this, rather
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/descendants-of-holocaust-survivors-have-altered-stress-hormones/
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/MINDchart.jpg
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
Guess I'm not surprised that my uni library's copies of the Criterion set remain unchecked out (I was the last). Good night to re-watch News From Home.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
there was a weird month in chicago, about a decade ago, when jeanne dielman was playing on different days, at three different venues, and i went each time. i think one of those was a weekday evening and i dozed off for a while, but i'm not sure akerman would mind.
as i mentioned elsewhere on ILXOR, i follow(ed) her on facebook and she seemed to a great extent like any slightly cantankerous aging baby boomer, posting about various social-media memes, complaining about the sorry state of american (and french) politics, sharing youtubes of rock music, etc.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
I need to get on a lot more, only features i remember seeing besides JD are News From Home and Almayer's Folly.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
I wrote in my brief blog obit that, contra Morbs, her work, because it presents work so rigorously, is best consumed while polishing tables and scrubbing floors.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
Or, in the case of D'est, drifting in and out of sleep.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
yeah there's nothing like 'watching' a film when your eyes aren't on the screen
that had better be the last time you make that philistinish boast. also fuck housework now and forever
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
i'd rather watch Delphine Seyrig do it
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:35 (eight years ago) link
akerman did have some installation pieces, often reconfigured from her later films.
i'm not sure that her earlier films would really benefit from a kind of passive attention or fluctuating attention. they're pretty rigorously designed to have a /cumulative/ effect.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link
Morbs' apartment:
http://www.trashitman.com/img/Hoarders-Apartment-Cleanout-NY.JPG
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
my preferred aesthetic: "early Unabomber"
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 18:53 (eight years ago) link
or perhaps "crazy cat lady in advanced stages of arthritis"?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link