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In Chantal Akerman’s first short film, Saute ma ville (‘Blow Up My Town’) the artist climbs the stairs of a tower block and enters her kitchen carrying a bunch of flowers. To a soundtrack of humming that slips between insouciance and derangement, she performs a sequence of eccentric actions.
Saute ma ville (1968, 13') is the unruly starting shot of her path as a filmmaker and shows the implosion of a young woman in a Brussels apartment. Shot entirely in her mother's kitchen, the film counts as the seed for many future thematic and formal interests.
The film, which runs 201 minutes, follows the daily minutiae, depicted in long unedited takes, in the life of a widowed mother (Delphine Seyrig) as she cooks, cleans, and engages in part-time prostitution to help pay the bills—with tragic results.
Een jonge vrouw dweilt de vloer van haar keuken, poetst haar schoenen, danst, kookt, plakt de deur dicht met plakband en geeft een explosieve wending aan haar huishoudelijke routine.
Descrizione Non il romanzo, bensì il racconto nella sua accezione più ampia – memoria rapsodica dell’altro, apprensione di momenti di essere altrimenti perituri, resi inaccessibili dalla sommaria percezione del vivere oggi dominante – può restituirci una dialettica dell’ascolto diciamo pure socratica. All’interno della quale diventa importante l’interpellanza di testimoni ...
Shot by Chantal Akerman during the summer of 1967 in Brussels and Knokke to enroll at the INSAS film school, which she left a few months later, these four shorts precede Saute ma ville (1968), the director’s first known and recognized film in her established filmography.
Una carriera permeata da l’esprit de contradiction Caos e ordine, realtà e finzione, parole e immagini, confinamento e viaggio, autobiografia e narrazione collettiva, convivono tanto nei film quanto nelle installazioni di Chantal Akerman.
