La chambre
A meditative, formally rigorous avant-garde short that transforms domestic space and the filmmaker's presence into a philosophical inquiry about observation, time, and self.
Furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back. This breakthrough formal experiment is Akerman's first film made in New York.
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