08.03.23
Events
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) / Director: Chantal Akerman / Length: 201 min. / Language: French / Subtitles: English / Entrance: FREE
Kino ARMATA is proud to present a feminist film and discussion series titled WHERE ARE THE WOMEN?, to be held between 8—10 March 2023.
This program is supported by the French Embassy in Kosovo, Alliance Française de Pristina, Collections CINEMATEK and Fondation Chantal Akerman.
Where are the women? In our public and private spaces? In our reflections and our ways of arranging and perceiving our daily lives? Where are the women in our modern society that is made by men for men, where women and marginalized groups must adapt and create space for their specific needs and desires which are by deduction, other?
Wednesday, 8 March 2023, 19:00h
— "Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles", 1975, directed by Chantal Akerman, 201 min.
— Introduction of the event and presentation of the movie by Chantal Akerman, followed by a short conversation with feminist activists Trina Binaku and Fjolla Muçaj on the question of home as a space assigned to women.
(*conversation before screening)
We begin the program with ‘the greatest film of all time’ — "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" by Chantal Ackerman. A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s film meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow, whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick. In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting character study or as one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades.