MIFF 2016: Chantal Akerman's No Home Movie an enduring epitaph for the avant-garde pioneer

By Stephanie Bunbury
Updated July 29 2016 - 12:24am, first published July 28 2016 - 2:58pm
"She made her house into a jail": a still from No Home Movie. Photo: Sarah Finney
"She made her house into a jail": a still from No Home Movie. Photo: Sarah Finney
No Home Movie is screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Photo: Sarah Finney
No Home Movie is screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Photo: Sarah Finney

There have been few filmmakers as uncompromising as Chantal Akerman, whose reconciliation of revealing material with formal rigour pointed the way for a generation of feminist filmmakers.

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