Photograhic Atlas Akerman: An Approach to Maniac Shadows by Chantal Akerman as a Visual Autobiography Project

  • Ana González Casero Universidad Complutense de Madrid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/ARAB.57049
Keywords: Autobiographical Form, Visual Self-Representation, Identity, Otherness, Intersubjectivity, Collective Memory, Pre-Existing Material

Abstract

The present text tries to approach the configuration of an autobiographical story as a collective experience from the photographic and audiovisual praxis. For this, the work of photographer and filmmaker Chantal Akerman is taken as the subject of analysis. Akerman works within the limits of the autobiographical essay, proposing itself as object of analysis. But one object projected towards the other. The object to be dissected is concretized in the photographic series that is part of the video installation Maniac Shadows (2013). It is a multi-channel installation with material recorded in the various places of residence of Akerman and during his trips through several cities and countries; A video in which Akerman reads a fragment of his autobiographical text My Mother Laughs and a collection of 100 photographs.

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Published
2018-01-29
How to Cite
González Casero A. (2018). Photograhic Atlas Akerman: An Approach to Maniac Shadows by Chantal Akerman as a Visual Autobiography Project. Área Abierta. Revista de comunicación audiovisual y publicitaria, 18(1), 169-188. https://doi.org/10.5209/ARAB.57049
Issue
Vol. 18 No. 1 (2018): Monográfico: Tras la cámara. Estudios sobre mujeres fotógrafas
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