Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Los Feliz Theatre, Los Angeles
### **ABOUT THE FILMS:** **“The Film-School Tests: Brussels 1 & 2, Knokke 1 & 2,” 1967, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 8 Mins, Janus Films, Belgium** These four short 8mm films were made by Chantal Akerman in the summer of 1967, in black and white and without sound, as part of her entrance exams to the Institut Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle (INSAS) in Brussels. She was admitted in the fall of 1967 but only studied in the school for a few months. FORMAT: DCP **“Saute ma ville,” 1968, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 13 Mins, Janus Films, Belgium** A young lady in her apartment’s kitchen mops the floors, polishes her shoes, dances, cooks, drinks wine, then she duct-tapes the door, opens the gas and blows everything up – humming all along. FORMAT: DCP **“J’ai faim, j’ai froid,” 1984, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 12 Mins, Chantal Akerman Foundation, France** *In French with English subtitles.* The short classical film of Chantal Akerman, describes two girls in Brussels who run away from home. They chain smoke and obsessively repeat the words: “I’m hungry, I’m cold.” What does fate have in store for two young penniless women in the big city? FORMAT: DCP **JE TU IL ELLE, 1975, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 86 Mins, Janus Films, Belgium** *In French with English subtitles.* In her provocative first feature, Chantal Akerman stars as an aimless young woman who leaves self-imposed isolation to embark on a road trip that leads to lonely love affairs with a male truck driver and a former girlfriend. With its famous real-time carnal encounter and its daring minimalism, JE TU IL ELLE is Akerman’s most sexually audacious film. FORMAT: DCP