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Chantal Akerman

Sad serendipity given our recent documentary-film-as-art discussion
Rufus F. October 6, 2015

News from the Guardian that the great documentary and narrative filmmaker Chantal Akerman has died by suicide at age 65.

Here is her moving 1977 “documentary” film News from Home:

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