To Give Things a Name
Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat
What’s in a name? When Chantal Akerman opens her last film, No Home Movie (2015), with an extended shot of a tree in the desert, she doesn’t give the place a name. She films a generic desert; it could be anywhere. Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat recognise the place and retrace Akerman’s journey, from Brussels to Israel, to film the same desert and give it a name: al-Naqab. It’s the beginning of ‘Là’, the duo’s exhibition in S.M.A.K.
Akerman has a thing for names. The tit (…)
