Zena Zezza | LOOKING, REALLY LOOKING! The films of Chantal Akerman


c3 is thrilled to be an artist project season partner to with Zena Zezza to present a program of films and discourse curated by Sandra Percival. The current programmatic arc centers around the work of artist and filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
LOOKING, REALLY LOOKING! The Films of Chantal Akerman 1968-2015 is a film and performative program which surveys the work of the Belgian/French artist and filmmaker Chantal Akerman and places it within a conceptual, thematic, and historical context at the intersection of film and contemporary art. Akerman, whose work defies easy categorization, is often placed within feminist, queer, Jewish, and avant-garde circles, yet her oeuvre moves across genres from fiction to the documentary/essay, musical and multi-media installations. Seen in historical and avant-garde circles from the US and Western Europe to the Middle East and South America, Akerman (1950-2015) presents us with complexities and doubts in a body of work that spans nearly fifty years and revolves around her family history, identity, memory and displacement, often portrayed in long takes within the modest aesthetics of everyday life. 

Among the season’s highlights, March through May, 2017 — 
• Films prescient to unresolved histories and current provocations on race and immigration
• Performative events and films on the emotive power of music to transcend history and geography
• Staged reading performances of Akerman’s writings on intimate portraits of daily life, familial relationships and emotions that cross generations
• Screening of Chantal Akerman's last film, "No Home Movie" voted by New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis as the #1 Best Movie of 2016

​Upcoming Screenings and Events:

Screening | Saturday, May 6, 7pm
DE L’AUTRE COTE (From the Other Side), 2002. (103 mins.)

Dialogue | Sunday, May 14, 11-1pm
LANDSCAPES SPEAK / PAST TO PRESENT (working title)
Laura Fried and Kyss Jean-Mary

​Screening | Saturday, May 13, 4:30pm
NO HOME MOVIE, 2015. (115 mins.)

Dialogue | Thursday, May 18, 7:30pm
MA MERE RIT (My Mother Laughs)
Performance Reading by Grace Carter

​All films are co-presented with the Northwest Film Center and shown at the Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum
​Tickets are available here.

Past Screenings and Events:

​Screening / Friday, April 7, 7pm
TOUTE UNE NUIT (A Whole Night), 1982, 86 mins. 

Screening / Friday, April 14, 7pm
LA FOLIE D'ALMAYER (Almayer’s Folly), 2011. (127 mins.)

Screening / Friday, April 21, 7pm
SUD (South), 1999. (71 mins.) + POUR FEBE ELISABETH VELASQUEZ, EL SALVADOR, 1991. (4 mins.)

Screening | Friday, March 17, 7PM 
CHANTAL AKERMAN PAR CHANTAL AKERMAN, 1996, 63 mins.

Screening | Friday, March 24, 7PM
LE DEMENAGEMENT (Moving), 1992, 42 mins. / LE JOUR OÙ, 1997, 7 mins.

Screening | Friday, March 31, 7PM
TOUTE UNE NUIT (A Whole Night), 1982, 86 mins.

Screening | Monday, November 7, 8:30PM.
Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum 
LETTERS HOME, France, 1986. (104 mins., video). 

Screening | Friday, November 18, 8PM
Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum
RUE MALLET STEVENS, France/Belgium, 1986. (7 mins., digital).
HÔTEL MONTEREY, Belgium/US, 1972. (65 mins., DCP). 
TROIS STROPHES SUR LE NOM DE SACHER, France, 1989. (12 mins., digital). 

Screening | Saturday, November 19, 7PM
Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum
JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES, Belgium/France, 1975. (201 mins., 35mm)
SAUTE MA VILLE (Blow Up My Town), Belgium, 1968. (13 mins., DCP). Sound.

Dialogue | Sunday, November 20, 2-4PM
PNCA Mediatheque
CHANTAL AKERMAN: LA PASSION DE L'INTIME / AN INTIMATE PASSION
A dialogue with Berenice Reynaud
*This event follows the screening of "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" at Whitsell Auditorium, which Berenice Reynaud will introduce.
 
Berenice Reynaud is a film critic/theoretician and curator who holds a joint appointment in the School of Film/Video and School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.

​To learn more about upcoming Zena Zezza programming or to become a member, visit zenazezza.org
Zena members receive free admission to all exhibitions, film screenings and performative events​
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