Chantal Akerman x Niña Weijers: Book Presentation + Films
Niña Weijers, the author of Kamers antikamers, De consequenties and Cassandra (Atlas Contact), wrote the foreword to the new, Dutch translation of Chantal Akerman’s well-known book My Mother Laughs, issued by the independent publishing house Koppernik. Akerman wrote about her childhood, her mother’s escape from Auschwitz and how their relationship shaped her work.
Niña Weijers will have a talk with art critic and curator Joséphine Vandekerckhove about Chantal Akerman and her own work.
Followed by a screening of two rarely shown films by Chantal Akerman about mothers.