Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1 Chantal Akerman: Cloistered Nomadism
7. Introduction 13
8. CHAPTER 1 Blow Up My Town: Everyday Rowdiness 17
9. CHAPTER 2 Jeanne Dielman: Neurotic Seclusion 22
10. CHAPTER 3 From Cities to Walls: A Local Change of Scenery 29
11. Part 2 The House as a Place of Declarations and Meditations
12. Introduction 43
13. CHAPTER 4 Avi Mograbi: The Political Workshop 45
14. CHAPTER 5 A Moving Inwardness: Alexander Sokurov’s A Humble Life 61
15. Part 3 The Forest: From Sensory Environment to Economic Site
16. Introduction 73
17. CHAPTER 6 Philippe Grandrieux’s Forest-matter: A Multisensory Place 75
18. CHAPTER 7 Naomi Kawase’s The Mourning Forest: The March of Bodies, the Spiritual Journey 83
19. CHAPTER 8 Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub: The ‘Sacred Sobriety’ of the Undergrowth 90
20. CHAPTER 9 Lisandro Alonso’s La Libertad and Los Muertos: The Dual Forest 103
21. Part 4 The Banlieue: Off-centred, Isolated
22. Introduction 111
23. CHAPTER 10 Pasolini’s Wastelands 115
24. CHAPTER 11 Pedro Costa’s Colossal Youth: From the Slums to the Sanitised Apartment 124
25. CHAPTER 12 Tariq Teguia and the Algerian Banlieue: A Field of Ruin 134
26. Part 5 The Strangeness of Places and the Solitude of Men
27. Introduction 145
28. CHAPTER 13 Bruno Dumont’s Hamlets: Cursed and Isolated Places 147
29. CHAPTER 14 Béla Tarr: Waiting behind Barricades 159
30. CHAPTER 15 Sharunas Bartas’s Undergrounds 167
31. Epilogue 177
32. Bibliography 180
33. Index 188