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Chantal Akerman says 'a film is a film is a film,' but hers really are different
“They need to talk” Akerman said of the people she had interviewed for De l’autre côté, many of whom had lost relatives to the deserts of the borderlands, or had attempted the border crossing only to be arrested and returned to Mexico. The urgency of these narratives is inextricably linked to their lack of exposure elsewhere; turning a camera on and allowing the marginalized to speak into it when others do not, just like utilizing camera and actors in the ways her dramatic films do, constitutes a political action. More
