Opening Screening | Experimental Stories. Chantal Akerman: Examen d’entrée INSAS + Weightless

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Wed 23.10.202419:30–22:00

Opening Screening | Experimental Stories. Chantal Akerman: Examen d’entrée INSAS + Weightless

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Experimental Stories. CHANTAL AKERMAN

Opening

Q&A with director

Screening

Cinema Modernissimo

Piazza Re Enzo 1/1

Ticket fee

Opening screening of the 17th edition of Archivio Aperto

Experimental Stories – Chantal Akerman: Examen d’entrée INSAS

Italian premiere

Bruxelles, film 1 directed by Chantal Akerman (1967, Belgium, 4’23”)

Bruxelles, film 2 directed by Chantal Akerman (1967, Belgium, 4’26”)

Knokke, film 1 directed by Chantal Akerman (1967, Belgium, 3’57”)

Knokke, film 2 directed by Chantal Akerman (1967, Belgium, 3’59”)

followed by

Weightless directed by Sara Fgaier (Italy, 2024, 95′)

Italian premiere with the director in attendance

In collaboration with Luce Cinecittà

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Screenings

Bruxelles, film 1

Chantal Akerman

Chantal Akerman films the Foire de Midi, which takes place every summer in the neighbourhoods south of Brussels.

Bruxelles, film 2

Chantal Akerman

In the film, we find Marilyn Watelet, Chantal Akerman's childhood friend, along with her sister Claudine and mother Nicole Watelet.

Knokke, film 1

Chantal Akerman

Marilyn Watelet, a childhood friend of Chantal Akerman, is the central character in a two-part fiction set in the shops of a seaside town.

Knokke, film 2

Chantal Akerman

Marilyn Watelet, Chantal Akerman's childhood friend, along with Natalia Akerman, the director's mother, are the protagonists of this two-part fiction.

Sulla terra leggeri (Weightless)

Sara Fgaier

Gian struggles with amnesia and is haunted by fragments of the past, which emerge in his mind like grainy archival images.

Program

Events

Experimental Stories. CHANTAL AKERMAN

In the summer of 1967, when she was only 17, Chantal Akerman applied for the Brussels Film School with these four 8mm short films.