- Friday | January 9 | 7:00 PM
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Auditorium Theater, 4K digital restoration
- 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston TX 77005
Introduced by DACAMERA Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg, who speaks about the January 16–17 performances of D’Est en musique.
The musical Golden Eighties, from feminist filmmaker Chantal Akerman, is a unique portrait of love and survival. In a shopping mall, store employees cycle through breakups, makeups, and misunderstandings, punctuated by imaginative production numbers. Akerman deftly balances the shiny pop pleasures of the genre with variations on her signature themes, including a moving reflection on wartime trauma and Jewish resilience. At its retrospective “Chantal Akerman: The Long View,” MoMA described this film as “perhaps the last great original movie musical, wedding gravity to lightness, chaos to order.”
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DACAMERA presents D’Est en musique (From the East)
Sonia Wieder-Atherton, cello
Sarah Rothenberg, piano
Images: Chantal Akerman
Concept and direction: Chantal Akerman and Sonia Wieder-Atherton
Friday, January 16, 7:00 PM (Click here for information and tickets)
Saturday, January 17, 7:00 PM (Click here for information and tickets)
Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
RECOMMENDED EVENTS
D’Est en musique (From the East)
- Friday | January 16 | 7:00 PM
- Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
French-American cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton and pianist Sarah Rothenberg bring Wieder-Atherton and filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s D’Est en musique to the US. Music of Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Chopin, Martinů, Janáček, Bartók and more.
D’Est en musique (From the East)
- Saturday | January 17 | 7:00 PM
- Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
French-American cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton and pianist Sarah Rothenberg bring Wieder-Atherton and filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s D’est en musique to the US. Music of Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Chopin, Martinů, Janáček, Bartók and more.
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