A Nos Amours Chantal Akerman Je, Tu, Il, Elle (I, You, He She)

Je, Tu, Il, Elle (I,You, He, She)
Dir: Chantal Akerman. Cast: Chantal Akerman, Niels Arestrup, Claire Wauthion
France/Belgium 1976, b&w, 90m

We are delighted to welcome Professor Karen Boyle to introduce this screening. Karen is Professor of Feminist Media Studies and Director of the Centre for Gender and Feminist Studies at the University of Stirling.

Je, Tu, Il, Elle is Akerman’s breakthrough feature length film, using filmic space to explore the multiple positions of self and other, sexuality and difference. It follows a young woman’s journey as she embarks on lonely physical encounters with a truck driver and a previous girlfriend. It inscribes a minimalist aesthetic that is indebted to the filmmaker Michael Snow. The loose synch creates a viewing structure that draws your attention to the performativity of the bodies on screen.

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Chantal Akerman is a filmmaker whose wide-ranging film and video practices explore themes of identity, sexuality, quotidian reality and exile, and works against conventional filmmaking in order to discover new worlds. As J. Hoberman has said: "Comparable in force and originality to Godard or Fassbinder, Chantal Akerman is arguably the most important European director of her generation."

A series of screened shorts and features programmed by Sacha Airlie in conjunction with the A Nos Amours retrospective of the complete film works of Chantal Akerman at the ICA in London. Please see www.anosamours.co.uk for further information.

This project has been kindly supported by The University of Glasgow's Creative Practice Fund and is extremely grateful to Lore Gablier and Paradise films.

A Nos Amours is supported by the British Film Institute, Wallonie-Bruxelles International and Film Hub London (managed by Film London)