Chantal Akerman's D'Est [From the East]
"[s]hot mainly in Poland and Russia in the year and a half following the dissolution of the Soviet Union"
long shots of waiting, which Crary interprets thusly:
"one of her revelatory achievements is [...] to show the act of waiting as something essential to the experience of being together, to the tentative possibility of community. It is a time in which encounters can occur. Mixed in with the annoyances and frustrations is the humble and artless dignity of waiting, of being patient as deference to otehrs, as a tacit acceptance of time shared in common"