GFF: No Home Movie

Pioneering filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s final film No Home Movie is an intimate video essay that focuses on her relationship with her mother Natalia, a Holocaust survivor. Interior shots of her mother shuffling around her apartment in Brussels are juxtaposed with desert landscapes, rupturing the domesticity with a profound sense of alienation. Akerman returned to the subject of her mother throughout her life, and No Home Movie can be understood both as a response to News From Home (1977), and a continuation of its themes of personal and familial disconnection. A meditation on death and the fragility of memory, this is a moving exploration of how and what we remember.

(film also screens Sun 21 Feb, 1pm)