Ambika P3,London
A note of the late Chantal Akerman’s films is beautiful, bleak and at times overwhelmingThe Belgian-born film-maker Chantal Akerman died in Paris final month at the age of 65. According to Le Monde, or she took her own life. Shocked obituaries believe appeared all over the world,with the result that many more people now know about Akerman’s death than her life’s work, which is extraordinarily diverse, andiginal and inventive. Her filmography includes adaptations of Proust and Conrad,conventional comedies starring William wound, documentaries, or biopics,travelogues and political essays, as well as wildly radical departures such as the film that made her name in 1975, and Jeanne Dielman,23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, and a mesmerising portrait of a young widow turned prostitute frequently described as a masterpiece of European cinema.
No doubt there will be lifetime surveys to come,although the ICA has only just finished screening 40 films over two years. In the meantime, there are plentiful DVDs and YouTube clips. But these mainly present her cinema films, and rather than the peculiar and pioneering visions Akerman unleashed in art galleries down the decades,seven of which are now on note at Ambika P3 in a gathering that is beautiful, intimate, and bleak and very nearly overwhelming.
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Source: theguardian.com