Book Description
Filmmaker Chantal Akerman presents "A Family in Brussels", a fictional stream-of-consciousness text encompassing multiple subjectivities and laced with autobiographical references. This is the first English-language publication of the work, which Akerman wrote and first performed as a monologue in Paris and Brussels. The accompanying CDs document the theatrical reading that took place at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York, in October 2001. In them, the listener can hear Akerman's singular voice as she muses on familial relations, communication, closeness, and distance.
5 x 7.5 in.
illustrated throughout
Includes 2 CD-ROMs
About the author
Chantal Akerman was born in 1950 in Brussels, Belgium. Some of her best known films include "Nuit et jour, Un divan a New York," and the recent "La Captive", and that and other work has been included in such exhibitions as the 2001 Venice Biennale and the Media City Seoul 2000 Biennial, Korea.
