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The Other Akerman : The Essay Film in News From Home (1976)

A rumination on how Chantal Akerman “captures a key element of the essay film, which is the use of theory: making theory into art and art into theory… The artwork is not cerebral; it uses theory, careful calculation to capture the new through an accident…”


/ Devdutt Trivedi
The Other Akerman : The Essay Film in News From Home (1976)
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    / Zinia Mitra
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    / Adrian Martin
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    / Kaz Rahman
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    / Sudarshan Ramani, Anuj Malhotra and Soham Gadre
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    / Ankan Kazi, Sudipto Basu and Anuj Malhotra