Le jour où… (Documentary)

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Director: Chantal Akerman
Producer: Chantal Akerman
Cinematographer: Robert Fenz,Raymond Fromont,Chantal Akerman
Editor: Claire Atherton

In a short she described as “an homage to Godard”, Akerman reflects on the future of cinema.

In this short film made for the 50th anniversary of the Locarno Film Festival, Akerman reads from a scripted monologue that blends her thoughts on cinema with her own wayward day: “The day I decided to think about the future of cinema, I told myself I wouldn’t live to see it. I asked myself if the future is always in front of us. So I looked ahead; then I turned around.” As her narration progresses, her words are spoken with increasing speed, keeping pace with the camera – which, as it rotates, exposes her apartment to the viewer with the director only occasionally in frame.

2K Restoration. Restored by Cinémathèque royale de Belgique (CINEMATEK), Fondation Chantal Akerman and Cinémathèque suisse.

This short film screens with L'homme à la valise, Family Business, Lettre de cinéaste, Portrait d'une paresseuse.