Pioneering filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s final film No Home Movie is an intimate video essay that focuses
on her relationship with her mother Natalia, a Holocaust survivor. Interior shots of her mother shuffling
around her apartment in Brussels are juxtaposed with desert landscapes; rupturing the domesticity with
a profound sense of alienation.
Akerman returned to the subject of her mother throughout her filmography and No Home Movie can be
understood both as a response to News From Home (1977), and a continuation of its themes of personal and
familial disconnection. A meditation on death and the fragility of memory, this is a moving exploration
of how and what we remember.
Glasgow Film Festival