May 18th 2025

Chantal Akerman: D’Est (1993)

@ Doc Films at the University of Chicago

1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL 60637

Opening Sunday, May 18th, at 7PM

D’Est (1993)
Chantal Akerman · 107m · 16mm

Slow tracking shots alternate with arresting still ones, taking us through East Germany to Moscow, from summer to winter. The subjects of the film are the former Soviet territories shortly after the fall of the Berlin wall, and in the landscapes, streets, and crowds, Akerman captures a certain atmosphere and reality of this uncertain transitional period in a way only cinema can — “while there’s still time,” as she wrote in her essay on D’Est.

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