D’Est

“I’d like to make a grand journey across Eastern Europe while there’s still time. Russia, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, former East Germany, through to Belgium. I’d like to film there, in my own style of documentary bordering on fiction. Everything that touches me. Faces, bits of streets, passing cars and buses, train stations and plains, rivers and oceans, rivers and streams, trees and forests. Fields and factories and still more faces, food, interiors, doors, windows, meals being prepared. Woman and men, young and old who pass by or stop, sitting or standing, sometimes even lying down. Days and nights, rain and wind, snow and spring.” (Chantal Akerman)