Journal Notes: 2001
Journal Notes: 2001
In Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday, Ivone Margulies provides a comprehensive examination of the minimalist visual imagery, deliberate pacing, and recurrent themes of disconnection, wanderlust, isolation, and longing that define Akerman's intensely personal cinema.
Citing Akerman's penchant for filming the rhythm of everyday life, and her de-emphasis of unique and significant events, Margulies proposes that Akerman does not attempt to reflect the social realism of the human condition but rather, seeks to create a heightened sense of hyperreality and what Margulies describes as corporeal cinema. According to Margulies, "Akerman's boldness as a filmmaker lies in her charging the mundane with significance."
In Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday, Ivone Margulies provides a comprehensive examination of the minimalist visual imagery, deliberate pacing, and recurrent themes of disconnection, wanderlust, isolation, and longing that define Akerman's intensely personal cinema.Citing Akerman's penchant for filming the rhythm of everyday life, and her de-emphasis of unique and significant events, Margulies proposes that Akerman does not attempt to reflect the social realism of the human condition but rather, seeks to create a heightened sense of hyperreality and what Margulies describes as corporeal cinema. According to Margulies, "Akerman's boldness as a filmmaker lies in her charging the mundane with significance."
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