The Room

xx ENCOUNTER WITH CHANTAL AKERMAN

Belgium/USA / 1972-2012
Installation

“All you have is time. In my films you are aware of every second passing by. Through your body. You are facing yourself … You’re face to face with the Other. It’s from this crucial face-to-face that your sense of responsibility begins … That’s my idea of ethics. It’s why I want equality, always, between the image and the spectator. Or the passage from one unconscious toward the other.”
- Chantal Akerman

This installation is a mysterious self-portrait of
the filmmaker at her favourite spot as well as a
sort of cinematic still-life, repetitively describing
elements in a space.

Opening conversation with Claire Atherton,
Tina Poglajen in Regina Guimarães.

In English.

Free entry.

Editing and spatializiation: Claire
Atherton
Five monitors video installation (16
mm film transferred to digital)
Courtesy of the Chantal Akerman
Estate and Marian Goodman Gallery
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no.
S0468)

Organisation: City of Women and MG+MSUM,
in collaboration with M HKA. Conversation in collaboration with Ekran magazine.