Meet Part | Mothers Daughters
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Chantal Akerman, Natalia (Nelly) Akerman, Lana Gogoberidze/Lana Ghoghoberidze/ლანა ღოღობერიძე, Nino (Nutsa) Gogoberidze/Nutsa Ghoghoberidze/ნინო (ნუცა) ღოღობერიძე, Sophiko Chiaureli/Sopiko Ch̓iaureli/სოფიკო ჭიაურელი, trauma, film, video essay, feminist videographic diptych, postmemory, nonhierarchical space, split/multi-screen techniques, women’s film, auteur cinema, arthouse cinemaAbstract
This audiovisual essay places Chantal Akerman’s Les rendezvous d’Anna / Meetings with Anna (France/Belgium, 1978) in dialogue with Lana Gogoberidze’s Ramdenime interwiu pirad sakitchebse / Some Interviews on Personal Matters (Georgia SSR, 1978). The piece centres the filmmakers that carve out a “room of their own” by not conforming to an expected style of film practice, be it European art house in the case of Akerman or Soviet logocentric melodrama in the case of Gogoberidze. Although made in different contexts – Akerman worked mostly in Belgium and France, Gogoberidze during this stretch of her career in Georgia, when it was part of the Soviet Union – I was struck by these films’ thematic, ethical, political, and personal resonances. Both films feature ambitious women whose identities are substantially shaped by the traumatic events drawn from the authors’ own lives.
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