Language:
English
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Discourse; Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture
Angaben zur Quelle:
22,1 (2000) 7-30
Keywords:
Akerman, Chantal Criticism and interpretation
;
Ten commandments Images
;
Ten commandments Adultery
;
Kol nidrei
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures
;
Jewish art Historiography
Abstract:
A philosophical discourse on the meaning of the second commandment which prohibits Jews from making graven images - i.e. engaging in idolatry, its connection to the seventh commandment which prohibits adultery, to the Yom Kippur prayer "Kol Nidre", and to the Belgian Jewish filmmaker Chantal Akerman. Akerman's video installation "Bordering on fiction; Chantal Akerman's 'D'est'" (1995), is based on her documentary film about Eastern Europe "D'est" made in 1993. In the installation, Akerman (the daughter of Holocaust survivors) presents images which hint at the deportation of the Jews. At the end, she narrates the text of the second commandment, which arouses the question whether a Jew is forbidden from or allowed to create images of the Holocaust, a question which Akerman has said she has thought about often.
Note:
Appeared also in "Complex Identities" (2001).
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