Free admission!

This screening is part of the series "Unfinished Diaries: Exile on Film" - presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Exile: The Land of Non-Belonging"

This screening is part of the series Unfinished Diaries: Exile on Film, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Exile: The Land of Non-Belonging.


"News from Home"


Letters from Chantal Akerman’s mother are read over a series of elegantly composed shots of 1976 New York, where our (unseen) filmmaker and protagonist has relocated. Akerman’s unforgettable time capsule of the city is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection.


"News from Home" will be preceded by Methods of Signaling, with an introduction by the filmmaker.


Methods of Signaling (2019)

by Olivia Leiter

Part 1 (5 minutes); Part 2 (4:38 minutes)


Olivia Leiter is an artist and educator living in Los Angeles. She received her BA in Politics at Brandeis University and is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of California, Riverside.