Film Review: Jean Ackerman

Ackerman uses objects really well to reflect that there's something precarious here, right? Part of what makes the film so thrilling is that there's this real sense that even though we're looking at this kind of static apartment, something is always at risk of being undermined. This time around, it's almost tempting to watch this film as a kind of haunted house film because the objects in it have a kind of instability and liveliness to them. The neon light outside that kind of is constantly moving across the apartment walls. There's this in kind of asking us to contemplate kind of in these long scenes all of these objects. We begin to detect a kind of precarity and the sense that