News from Home + Interior NY Subway, 14th Street

A double bill of two films shown together: Chantal Akerman's 'News from Home' and G. W. "Billy" Bitzer's 'Interior NY Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street'. Made when Akerman was 26 and living in New York, away from her native Belgium and her mother, 'News from Home' pairs images filmed with Babette Mangolte in subway stations and on street corners with Akerman's recitals of her mother's fretful letters, and is considered one of the greatest portraits of a city ever put on film and a troubling, touching depiction of maternal love. Bitzer's short from 1905 runs 6 minutes, while Akerman's 1976 film runs 85 minutes in its English-language version. The screening is introduced by series curator Genevieve Yue.