A short film that is part of a collective film about the future of cinema, made for the 50th anniversary of the Locarno Festival in 1997. In an interview with Nicole Brenez in 2011, Akerman describes the film as follows: "Essentially, a tribute to Godard."
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“The day I decided to think about the future of cinema, I told myself I wouldn't live to see it. I asked myself if the future is always in front of us. So I looked ahead, then I turned around. I wondered if the people who walk with their heads down have a sense of the future, or only those who walk proudly, heads high. I said to myself that, for me, the future was behind me, because one doesn't say about someone my age that she has a bright future ahead of her. So the day I decided to think about the future of cinema, I got up on the wrong side of the bed. When you get up on the wrong side of the bed, you can't think, and, even less, think about the future of cinema.”
Chantal Akerman1
- 1Voice-over by Chantal Akerman of Le jour où. Translation available on Sabzian as ‘The Day When..’.
