Issue 22
Notebook

Intimacy as a political act . About 'Grey Gardens' and Chantal Akerman’s autobiographical cinema

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  • Sergi Sánchez Martí,
  • Ana Aitana Fernández Moreno
Sergi Sánchez Martí
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Ana Aitana Fernández Moreno
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Bio
DOI: https://doi.org/10.63700/343

Published 2016-07-31

Keywords

  • Intimacy,
  • Symptom,
  • History,
  • Grey Gardens,
  • Chantal Akerman,
  • Auschwitz.
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Sánchez Martí, S., & Fernández Moreno, A. A. (2016). Intimacy as a political act . About ’Grey Gardens’ and Chantal Akerman’s autobiographical cinema. L’Atalante. Journal of Film Studies, (22), 77–86. https://doi.org/10.63700/343

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Abstract

Can the documentary filming of intimacy become a political gesture? If in the intimate, as Nora Catelli states, lies the way to understand history as a symptom, this article aims to show how this gesture is translated into images from seemingly opposite methods: the Maysles brothers' gesture affiliated to the exteriorness of direct cinema in Grey Gardens; and Chantal Akerman's interiority in her autobiographical essays, being the filmmaker herself an object of study. What is the connection between these two examples? They are both based on the traumatic experiences of history, manifested in the singularity of troubled maternal-filial relationships.

 

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