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.
Direction
Akerman invents her signature static-camera language here.
Cinematography
Every object becomes loaded with psychological weight.
Director
Chantal Akerman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Akerman was only 22 when she made this, having just arrived in New York from Belgium with borrowed equipment.
This short directly predicts her masterpiece Jeanne Dielman—same claustrophobic apartment, same female stillness, same radical duration. She was already fully herself.
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