Eidolon Club Vol. 17 – No Home Movie
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Our goal is to offer fresh perspectives and networking opportunities centred around the appreciation of vernacular imagery. Eidolon Club’s monthly event series invites our Budapest-based community to explore new dimensions and challenge traditional perceptions of visual culture.
Through curated programs, film screenings, workshops, talk events, and guided tours hosted at various venues, Eidolon Club provides a platform for enthusiasts, professionals, students, and curious individuals to come together and celebrate the most ubiquitous, ever-present, wide-ranging form of visual communication of the last two centuries.
Schedule
The final film in the Eidolon Club series this year is Chantal Akerman’s 2015 documentary ‘No Home Movie’, which also serves as the closing work of the director’s oeuvre. Akerman is best known for ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’ (1975), which was voted the greatest film of all time by critics in ‘Sight & Sound’ magazine’s poll in 2022. Yet alongside her major auteur films, Akerman’s body of work is also remarkably rich in short films and documentaries.
‘No Home Movie’ almost seems to frame her entire oeuvre. In ‘News from Home’ (1976), which Budapest audiences were recently able to see in cinema, Akerman reads letters from her mother while her camera scans the streets of New York. In ‘No Home Movie’, meanwhile, their online video calls across the Atlantic and their conversations form the backbone of the film. In a sense, the forty years between the two films are also a history of profound changes in communication technology – something that becomes visible within the film itself: the 16mm images of the 1970s give way to handheld cameras, mobile-phone footage and screen recordings.
For the Eidolon Club audience, however, we do not want to highlight only this all-encompassing medial-technologic phenomenon. The final film by one of contemporary cinema’s most important directors is about much more: it is a film about memory, distance, grief, and the fragile ways in which we try to remain connected to those we love.
The film will be screened three times in French, with Hungarian subtitles. Before the screenings, a short video essay will be shown, contextualising the film.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/ivuuUVk-1wU?si=ttH6VjKYLslIwgtv
Tickets: https://www.cirkogejzir.hu/.../eidolon-club-vol-17.../1238/
Screenings:
9 September , 2026 at 18:30
17 September, 2026 at 18:30
26 September, 2026 at 18:30
cirko-gejzír mozi
One of Europe's smallest independent cinemas, run by the Cirko Film-Másképp Foundation. As they noted, "We are committed to making available works whose distribution is not linked to any commercial purpose, while promoting quality culture and the circulation of European values and culture."
