May 2018
Beginner to intermediate
330 pages
14h 27m
English
Claire Atherton (left) with Chantal Akerman
(Courtesy Claire Atherton)
Although Claire has edited for many directors, it is her collaboration with Chantal Akerman which was particularly significant, as our conversation demonstrates. We talked in Claire’s Paris flat on a bright Sunday morning in October 2016. I asked first about her childhood.
CA: I was born in San Francisco but we moved to New York when I was very young, and then to Paris when I was about five. When I went back to San Francisco with Chantal in 1995, I felt something familiar but I can’t say I recognised it.
RC: And why were your parents in San Francisco? ...
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