Saute Ma Ville [Blow Up My Town]

Chantal Akerman

1968

Film, 00:13:00.
Materials: 16 mm film transferred to dvd, black & white

Collection: Courtesy of the artist & Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris.

In 1968 Chantal Akerman is 18 and inaugurates her oeuvre by blowing up the space of her small studio - a burlesque pamphlet against household chores with May 68 undertones. While singing, Chantal dismantles her kitchen, makes the walls dirty and spreads shoe polish on her calves until the explosive end comes.

“A film full of nonsense or full of sense? Teenage self-assertion? Revolt against women’s status? (...) We can also say that this is an announcement of Jeanne, and a contrario, a turbulent and accelerated Jeanne Dielman.” Hommage à Chantal Akerman, catalogue edited by Jacqueline Aubenas

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