D'Est (1993)
- Directed by
- Chantal Akerman
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 30 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
This documentary follows people in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Eastern Bloc. It shows landscapes and residents without any spoken commentary or dialogue.
observationalmeditativequietmelancholicslow-buildingevocativereflectivebleak
What happens
D'Est [dɛst], translated into English as From the East, is a 16-mm experimental documentary film, shot in Poland, Ukraine, Russia and the former East Germany. The film investigates the stories of people’s lives in an unstable time after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc through the idea of memory. The film has no commentary or dialogue and instead documents landscapes and residents in an observational manner. Okwui Enwezor, curator, art critic and writer, describes the characters in the film as “bewildered, anachronistic and depthless in the harsh flare of history”. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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