Film
From the East (D’Est)
Sun, May 1, 2016
- 2PM
- 7PM
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RUN TIME: 107min
FORMAT: 16mm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $14
MEMBERS: $7 (free for Level 4 and above)
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May 2016
Sunday May 01, 2016
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2016
series Chantal Akerman: Images Between the Images
Directed by Chantal Akerman | 1993
“A travelogue through history... Akerman has described this elegant masterpiece as ‘documentary bordering on fiction’; it’s also a purely cinematic monument in time and space.”
—J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
In this haunting, nearly wordless record of Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Akerman captures indelible images of people and places seemingly stuck in time: grand railway stations, stony-faced people lined up amid austere communist architecture, the otherworldly, snowbound landscapes of Moscow in winter’s twilight. The director’s eye for detail and painterly compositions yields something unique: a resonantly emotional travelogue. An Icarus Films release.
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