My Mother Laughs

In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn't talk about, the difficulty of loving her girlfriend, C., her fear of what she would do when her mother did die. Among these imperfectly perfect fragments of writing about her life, she placed stills from her films. My Mother Laughs is both the distillation of the themes Akerman pursued throughout her creative life, and a version of the simplest and most complicated love story of all: that between a mother and a daughter.

Product details

• Authors: Chantal Akerman, Akerman Chantal
• Assisted by: Myles Eileen (Introduction), Morgan Frances (Afterword), Daniella Shreir (Translation), Danielle Shreir (Translation)
• Publisher: Inpress Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780995716230
• ISBN: 978-0-9957162-3-0
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 195 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Prose: non-fiction, Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Films, cinema, Biography and non-fiction prose, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs