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CHANTAL AKERMAN — HISTOIRES D’AMÉRIQUE

Chantal Akerman’s HISTOIRES D’AMÉRIQUES—FOOD, FAMILY AND PHILOSOPHY has been restored by the Royal Cinematheque of Belgium, and will screen once this week at MOMA.

Featuring Living Theatre founder Judith Malina, and Stranger in Paradise star Eszter Balint and her father Stephan, the film looks at Jewish history and identity on the Lower East Side.

HISTOIRES D’AMÉRIQUES—FOOD, FAMILY AND PHILOSOPHY

Tuesday, January 29, at 1:30 pm.

Museum of Modern Art

11 West 53rd Street, New York City.

From top: Chantal Akerman; scene from Histoires d’Amérique (1989).

SONIA WIEDER-ATHERTON’S CHANTAL

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This week at Redcat, cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton – the life partner of Chantal Akerman and a strong influence on the late filmmaker’s use of music in her work – will perform her tribute piece CHANTAL?, conceived by Wieder-Atherton and Renaud Bouchard-Gonzalez.

“I wanted to play along with her, her every move, her silences, her dancing at once burlesque and deadly serious, her anxiety as she is humming little tunes. Tracking her, surprising her, surprising myself at each step.” – Wieder-Atherton

CHANTAL? incorporates a screening of Akerman’s first film, the 13-minute SAUTE MA VILLE.

 

SONIA WIEDER-ATHERTON – CHANTAL?, Monday, April 23, at 8:30 pm.

REDCAT, Disney Hall, 631 West 2nd Street, downtown Los Angeles.

redcat.org/chantal

Above: Chantal Akerman.

Below: Sonia Wieder-Atherton.

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