7pm *FREE*
Là-bas (Down There, Chantal Akerman, France/Belgium/Israel, video, 78 min., 2006)
Part of the Experimental Tuesdays series + Milwaukee premiere!
A visual diary, room-bound mostly, of Akerman's stay in Tel Aviv. Or, as she describes it: “It is a film about the relationship of somebody from the Diaspora to Israel — an imaginary Israel , maybe… A film both within the world and cut off the world — in which one can guess the faint outline of a Jewish family's past. It suggests what it means not to belong — and what the illusion of belonging would be…”
