Chantal Akerman's D'Est
 

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"

> from Jonathan Crary's 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (2013)

> tagged with #human_behavior, #community, #documentary, #russia, #to_see, #film,

> created October 14, 2025 at 7:34:16 PM


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