Part 9: Akerman vs. America

Simon Howell and Kate Rennebohm — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 14:00:00 -0500

Riding guest-free for a change, Kate and Simon tackle three films (a short and two features) that touch on issues of racism, injustice, and murder: the Amnesty International-prompted Pour Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador, 1999's Sud and 2002's De L'Autre Coté. We also dive a little more than usual into criticisms of Akerman's documentary work/style and consider how the intervening decades have treated Akerman's portraits of American racism and violence.

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Our intro music is performed by Sundar Subramanian. You can stream and buy his work here: https://sundarsubramanian.bandcamp.com/

Part 8: See and don't see (ft. Alisa Lebow)

Simon Howell and Kate Rennebohm — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 10:15:00 -0400

With the help of scholar and filmmaker Alisa Lebow, who arrives armed with memories of meeting and speaking with Akerman, we tackle some of the Akerman work most inherently tied up with questions and challenges of Jewish identity, history and politics. These films are: 1980's medium-length TV doc Dis-Moi (Tell Me); 1986's tragicomic examination of Jewish life in New York, Histoires d'Amerique, and 2006's experimental and bracing La-Bas (Down There).

Check out Alisa's Filming Revolution here: https://www.filmingrevolution.org/

Music:
Do Make Say Think "Goodbye enemy Airship"
Mary 'Queenie' Lyons "See and Don't See"

If youlike the show or what we do generally, consider throwing us a few bucks to help cover our costs: https://paypal.me/kateandsimonpod

Our intro music is performed by Sundar Subramanian. You can stream and buy his work here: https://sundarsubramanian.bandcamp.com/

The Akerman Year - Episodes Tagged with “Documentary”

Part 9: Akerman vs. America

Part 8: See and don't see (ft. Alisa Lebow)