News from Home (1976)
- Directed by
- Chantal Akerman
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Germany, France, Belgium
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 90 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The film shows long static shots of New York City streets, subways, and neighborhoods. Over these images, director Chantal Akerman reads letters her mother wrote her while she was living there in the early 1970s.
intimatelonelycontemplativequieturbanmelancholicpersonalslow-paced
What happens
News from Home is a 1976 avant-garde documentary film directed by Chantal Akerman. The film consists of long takes of locations in New York City set to Akerman's voice-over as she reads letters that her mother sent her between 1971 and 1973 when Akerman lived in the city. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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