Part Three
Screening: Chantal Akerman, D’Est

e-flux Screening Room presents a screening of Chantal Akerman's D’Est (1993, 110 minutes).

The screening comprises Part Three of Éric Baudelaire: To Do With, a four-day program taking place December 2-5 at e-flux Screening Room, 172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn. The program will present a selection of films and films-in-progress by Éric Baudelaire, in dialogue with works by Chantal Akerman and Naeem Mohaiemen, and followed by conversations with special guests Omar Berrada, Stuart Comer, Dennis Lim, Naeem Mohaiemen, Paige Sarlin, and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie. 

Chantal Akerman, D’Est
1993
110 minutes

Following the demolition of the Berlin Wall, Chantal Akerman captures the reality and mutation of former Soviet territories, shot from summer through winter in a series of travelling shots alternating with a static camera. From East Germany to Moscow, passing through Poland, Lithuania, and the Ukraine, she records the bodies and faces of the anonymous masses, their expressions unreadable, either walking or simply waiting for who knows what. She films buildings, landscapes, snow, nightfall, and offers a mass of visual and aural impressions that constitute a bewitching, impressionistic poem.