SYNOPSIS

This film is above all else about my late mother. About this woman who came to Belgium in 1938, fleeing Poland, the pogroms and the abuses. This woman we only see in her apartment in Brussels. It’s a film about the changing world that my mother does not see.

PROGRAM NOTE

me Movie is a film about Natalia, the mother
 of AKERMAN and she called her \'the center of
 her oeuvre\'. She tries to capture and preserve the
 memory of her aged mother who didn\'t have much
 time left to live. No Home Movie displays the formats
 and subjects used in her previous works in a primitive
 way. Endings become new beginnings. A room and
 a kitchen shot in a fixed angle, a parallel tracking
 shot of a bleak landscape, the mother who was a
 Polish immigrant and Auschwitz survivor now living
 as a middle-class homemaker in Brussels, and her
 peeling potatoes- all of these are contained in this
 film. It seems an asymmetric response to an epistolary
 experimental film entitled News from Home (1977)
 produced while AKERMAN was living in New York
 City. In 1977 there was a time lag when two women
 corresponded with each other, but nowadays, they
 talk via Skype in real time. News from Home shows
 you the streets in New York where her mother was
 absent, while her mother and her house, especially
 the kitchen, are fully present in No Home Movie. The
 inconsistent desires of having a deep affinity with her
 mother and being independent from her may be the
 subject of News from Home, while No Home Movie
 says that there is \'no home\' since her mother wouldn\'t
 be there anymore. Where is home? A self-described
 nomad, AKERMAN has no home – no mother - to
 return to. [CHO HyeYoung]