Showing posts with label Chantal Ackerman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chantal Ackerman. Show all posts

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Saute Ma Ville

Saute Ma Ville channels all the despondency, destructiveness and enraged obnoxiousness of teenage girls into a tight thirteen minute sequence consisting of our heroine (below) destroying a kitchen as she attempts to cook, clean and polish her shoes (and, as she attempts to feed and care for it, kill one cat). A miniature Ackerman gem of hostile domestic surfaces and combustible (literally) female energy, it does indeed "vibrate ... with a sort of David Lynch-ian menace," as Dan Callahan writes in his brief interview with Ackerman here.