Chantal Akerman – Là-bas aka Down there (2006)

Devastating essay on exile, Là-bas (2006) is a crucial moment of Akerman’s life when she herself was confined to a rental apartment in Tel Aviv unable to bridge the threshold to the outside world, overwhelmed by the flooding of traumatic thoughts, fears and vulnerabilities awakened by her family’s history with the death camps. Impossible not to think of her last work and of the reasons why she left when watching Là-bas today, which was also shot in video and similarly takes the shape of a personal, cloistered chamber piece.
(Based on Andréa Picard’s article)

Inside, through a “front window”, a “rear life”,
and outside sometimes when the inner weather is good.

1.67GB | 1h 18mn | 1016×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A94796493F6F591/La-bas.mkv

Language(s):French, English
Subtitles:Spanish, English