MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER
May 2 to July 6, 2008
Opening Reception May 1, 2008
6 to 8pm
D'est: Au bord de la fiction
(From the East: Bordering on Fiction), 1995
Chantal Akerman is widely regarded as one of the most important directors in film history. Since 1995 Akerman's artistic practice has melded documentary filmmaking techniques with video installation. Moving Through Time and Space explores her work in the crossover genre of film and visual art: D'est: Au bord de la fiction is a compendium of striking images of Eastern Europe and its citizens in the transition period following the end of the Cold War. Multiple video monitors retrace a journey that extends from the end of summer to the deepest winter, from East Germany, across Poland and the Baltic to Moscow. There is no narration and the film unfolds as a precession of beautifully chosen, enigmatic images in which Akerman captures the essence, if not the historical particulars, of a region on the move (excerpt of press release).
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