Sud (1999 film)

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Sud (English: South) is a 71-minute 1999 Belgian-Finnish-French English-language independent documentary art film directed by Chantal Akerman.

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Chantal Akerman in 2012

The film, which premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival (where it was nominated for the International Confederation of Art Cinemas Award) and was released on DVD in 2016 as part of a boxset also containing D’Est (1993), De l’autre côté (2002), and Down There (2006), [1] examines the effect of the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. on the residents in Jasper, Texas. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] Financed by Institut national de l’audiovisuel, La Sept-Arte, RTBF, and the Ministry of Transport and Communications’s Yle, produced by Iikka Vehkalahti  [ fi ], and edited by Claire Atherton, it was also shown at the 2000 Thessaloniki International Film Festival, at the 2000 International Film Festival Rotterdam, at the 2000 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, at the 2001 Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival  [ de ] (where it won the Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Award – Special Mention), at the 2006 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, at the 2011 Vienna International Film Festival, and at the 2018 Jerusalem Film Festival.

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References

  1. ↑ Akerman, Chantal Anne (March 2016). Chantal Akerman: Four Films (DVD) (in French and Spanish). New York, New York: Icarus Films. OCLC   1037269053 . Retrieved 6 February 2019. Includes Jonathan Rosenbaum’s “Place and Displacement: Akerman and Documentary.” Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  2. ↑ Schwartz, Dennis (20 April 2012). "The Sobering and Haunting Film Acts As a Meditation on Racial Hatred". Ozu’s World Movie Reviews. Bennington, Vermont: Online Film Critics Society . Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  3. ↑ Capp, Rose. "Akerman Resists Southern Comfort". Senses of Cinema, Issue 6. Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Film Institute Research Collection, RMIT School of Media and Communication, RMIT University. May 2000. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  4. ↑ "Sud" [South]. Time Out . London: Time Out Group . Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  5. ↑ Rooney, David (24 May 1999). "South". Variety . New York, New York and Los Angeles, California: Penske Media Corporation’s Variety Media, LLC. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  6. ↑ Liénard, Marie (2006). "Sud de Chantal Akerman ou une histoire de territoire et de terre: Le Sud comme espace de mémoire" [Chantal Akerman’s Sud or the History of Territory and Land: The South As Space of Memory]. Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, n°19: Espaces et terres d’Amérique: Mapping American Space (in French). Toulouse: Département Études du monde anglophone, University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. pp. 131–138. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  7. ↑ MacDonald, Prof. Dr. Scott (January 2005). A Critical Cinema 4: Interviews With Independent Filmmakers. A Critical Cinema: Interviews With Independent Filmmakers, California Film Books, ed. Prof. Dr. Scott MacDonald, Vol. 4. Oakland, Los Angeles, and Berkeley, California and London: University of California’s University of California Press. pp. 258–273. ISBN   9780520242715. OCLC   56876181 . Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  8. ↑ Levy, Prof. Dr. Emanuel. "Sud (South, 1999): Akerman Portrait of Hate Crime Killing of James Byrd". Emanuel Levy: Cinema 24/7. 25 March 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  9. ↑ Hoberman, James Lewis. "Losing Ground Meditates on Art as It Examines a Marriage in Peril". The New York Times . New York, New York. 15 April 2016. p. AR15. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  10. ↑ Youmans, Prof. Dr. Gregory Martin. "Ghosted Documentary: Chantal Akerman's Là-bas". Millennium Film Journal, No. 50 (Spring/Summer 2009): Experiments in Documentary, pp. 71–80. New York, New York: Millennium Film Workshop . Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  11. ↑ Rapord, Nicolas. "Over There: Chantal Akerman Presents From the Other Side at FIAF". Film Comment . New York, New York: Film Society of Lincoln Center. 6 October 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
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