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  The Souvenir: Part II 2021

  Watched 08 Oct 2021

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjnayJBrcrA

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  His House 2020

  Watched 20 Dec 2020

  Impressive slippages of an uncertain reality in camera or with assured shot continuity. Trauma very present but an alienated experience is communicated very effectively in brief moments and ambience. Frictions in rituals and practice, adjusting to new circumstance. Everything in the background, but right here. Why say it?

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  Down There 2006

  Watched 07 Dec 2020

  Lockdown, withdrawal, a gathering of resources. In Down There, from the close confines of a Tel Aviv apartment, blinds drawn, Akerman considers her geographically unrooted existence and her history. Perhaps she suffers the nomadism, she suffers here. Akerman's film-making is, nevertheless, rooted in people, and her self in the film-making. We surveil the daily routines of neighbours, it seems they belong; all is seen through a veil. The evidence we have of Akermans daily routines are narrative reflections and the…

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  From the East 1993

  Rewatched 05 Dec 2020

  There is so much of life in this film!

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