Down There (film)

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Down There is a 78-minute 2006 Belgian-French English- and French-language independent documentary art film directed by Chantal Akerman.

Description and synopsis

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The film, which premiered at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival and was released on DVD in 2016 as part of a boxset also containing D’Est (1993), Sud (1999), and De l’autre côté (2002),{{cite AV media|url=https://www.icarusfilms.com/if-aker5|title=Chantal Akerman: Four Films|people=Akerman, Chantal Anne|location=New York, New York|publisher=Icarus Films|language=French, Spanish|accessdate=5 February 2019|format=DVD|OCLC=1037269053|date=March 2016}} Includes Jonathan Rosenbaum’s “[https://www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2016/03/place-and-displacement-akerman-and-documentary Place and Displacement: Akerman and Documentary].” Retrieved 6 February 2019. documents Akerman's spending of a month in Tel Aviv-Yafo, in an apartment by the sea, contemplating her family, her Jewish identity, and her childhood.Vermeersch, Laure, {{ill|Pierre Zaoui|de|Pierre Zaoui|fr|lt=Zaoui, Prof. Dr. Pierre}}, et Zilberfarb, Sacha. {{cite news|title=Là-bas ou ailleurs: Entretien avec Chantal Akerman|trans-title=There or Elsewhere: Interview With Chantal Akerman|date=April 2007|url=http://www.vacarme.org/article1288.html|language=French|work={{ill|Vacarme (revue)|fr|lt=Vacarme}}, n°39, pp. 4–10|location=Paris|access-date=5 February 2019|publisher=Association Vacarme}}Lajer-Burcharth, Prof. Dr. Ewa. {{cite news|title=Interior and Interiority: Chantal Akerman's Là-bas|date=December 2010|url=https://www.scholar.harvard.edu/files/elajer-burcharth/files/elb_akerman.pdf|work=Einunddreissig: Das Magazin des Instituts für Theorie, Special Issue: Die Figur der Zwei/The Figure of Two, n°14/15, pp. 139–146|location=Zürich|access-date=5 February 2019|publisher=Institut für Theorie, Zurich University of the Arts}} Reprinted as “[https://www.academia.edu/16890478/_Unbelonging_Interior_Chantal_Akermans_La_Bas_ Unbelonging Interior: Chantal Akerman’s Là-bas]” in: Prof. Dr. Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Prof. Dr. {{ill|Beate Söntgen|de}}, eds., {{cite news|title=Interiors and Interiority|date=November 2015|url=https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/246249|pages=435–488|location=Berlin and Boston, Massachusetts|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|access-date=5 February 2019|isbn=9783110340457|oclc=931524596}}Nigianni, Dr. Chrysanthi. {{cite news|title=Chantal Akerman's Là-bas: The Suspended Image and the Politics of Anti-Messianism|date=July 2013|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284716473|work=Senses of Cinema, Issue 67|location=Melbourne, Victoria|access-date=5 February 2019|publisher=Australian Film Institute Research Collection, RMIT School of Media and Communication, RMIT University}} Original version: [https://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/index.php/conf/2012/paper/view/192 Film-Philosophy Conference 2012], King’s College London; Queen Mary University of London; Kingston University, 12–14 September 2012. Retrieved 5 February 2019.Kleinberg, Joanna. {{cite news|title=Chantal Akerman: Là-bas|trans-title=Chantal Akerman: Down There|date=May 2007|url=https://www.frieze.com/article/chantal-akerman-l%C3%A0-bas|work=Frieze, Issue 107|location=London, New York, New York, and Berlin|access-date=5 February 2019|publisher=Frieze Art Fair and Durian Publications}}Taubin, Amy. {{cite news|title=Review: Là-bas|date=May–June 2007|url=https://www.filmcomment.com/article/review-la-bas-chantal-akerman|work=Film Comment|location=New York, New York|access-date=5 February 2019|publisher=Film Society of Lincoln Center}}Gronball, Andrea. {{cite news|title=Down There|date=11 August 2016|url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/down-there/Film?oid=23072904|work=Chicago Reader|location=Chicago, Illinois|access-date=5 February 2019|publisher=Sun-Times Media Group}}Anderson, Melissa. {{cite news|title=In Akerman's Là-bas, the Great Filmmaker Finds Life and Sanctuary in Tel Aviv|date=14 April 2016|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2016/04/14/in-akermans-la-bas-the-great-filmmaker-finds-life-and-sanctuary-in-tel-aviv|work=The Village Voice|publisher=Village Voice Media|location=New York, New York|access-date=5 February 2019}}James, Nick. {{cite news|title=Rendezvous With Chantal Akerman|date=October 2015|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/obituaries/rendezvous-chantal-akerman|work=Sight & Sound|location=London|access-date=5 February 2019|publisher=British Film Institute}}Brody, Richard. {{cite magazine|title=Down There|date=18 August 2016|url=https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/la-bas|magazine=The New Yorker|location=New York, New York|access-date=5 February 2019|publisher=Advance Publications}}Hoberman, James Lewis. {{cite news|title=Losing Ground Meditates on Art as It Examines a Marriage in Peril|date=15 April 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/movies/losing-ground-meditates-on-art-as-it-examines-a-marriage-in-peril.html|work=The New York Times|location=New York, New York|access-date=5 February 2019|page=AR15}}Douin, Jean-Luc. {{cite news|title=Là-bas: La Shoah vue de l'appartement|date=24 October 2006|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2006/10/24/la-bas-la-shoah-vue-de-l-appartement_827042_3476.html|work=Le Monde|location=Paris|access-date=6 February 2019|publisher=Groupe Le Monde|language=French|trans-title=Down There: The Holocaust Seen From the Apartment}}Gilerman, Dana. {{cite news|title=In Exile: Here, There and Everywhere|date=11 July 2006|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4856889|work=Haaretz|location=Tel Aviv-Yafo|access-date=6 February 2019|publisher=M. DuMont Schauberg and {{ill|Haaretz Group (Company)|ar|مجموعة هاآرتس|de|Haaretz-Gruppe|he|קבוצת הארץ|lt=Haaretz Group}}}}Youmans, Prof. Dr. Gregory Martin. {{cite news|title=Ghosted Documentary: Chantal Akerman's Là-bas|url=http://www.mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ51/Youmans.html|work=Millennium Film Journal, No. 50 (Spring/Summer 2009): Experiments in Documentary, pp. 71–80|location=New York, New York|access-date=6 February 2019|publisher=Millennium Film Workshop}}Rapord, Nicolas. {{cite news|title=Over There: Chantal Akerman Presents From the Other Side at FIAF|date=6 October 2015|url=https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/over-there-chantal-akerman-presents-from-the-other-side-at-fiaf|work=Film Comment|location=New York, New York|access-date=7 February 2019|publisher=Film Society of Lincoln Center}} Edited by Claire Atherton, financed by {{ill|Le Fresnoy|fr|Le Fresnoy|pt}}, and distributed by {{ill|Shellac (société de distribution)|fr|lt=Shellac}}, it was also shown at the 2006 Marseille Festival of Documentary Film (where it won the Grand Prix of the International Competition), at the 2006 Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (where it was nominated for the Best World Documentary), at the 2006 and 2011 Vienna International Film Festival, at the 2007 Mar del Plata International Film Festival, at the 2018 Jerusalem Film Festival, and at the 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam, and was nominated for the César Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2007 César Awards.