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| D'Est | |
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| Directed by | Chantal Akerman |
| Written by | Chantal Akerman |
| Produced by | Loudmila Priciajnaia |
| Cinematography | Rémon Fromont Bernard Delville |
| Edited by | Claire Atherton Agnès Bruckert |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Icarus Films |
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Running time | 107 minutes |
| Countries | Belgium France Portugal |
| Languages | German Polish Russian |
D'Est [dɛst], translated into English as From the East, is a 16-mm experimental documentary film, shot in Poland, Ukraine, Russia and the former East Germany. The film investigates the stories of people’s lives in an unstable time after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc through the idea of memory.[1] The film has no commentary or dialogue and instead documents landscapes and residents in an observational manner. Okwui Enwezor, curator, art critic and writer, describes the characters in the film as “bewildered, anachronistic and depthless in the harsh flare of history”.[2]