Chillbear LaMeerkat
December 17, 2009 in Wordsmoker Poetry
Little Officer Chillbear
Listen very carefully. What can you hear?
What can you see? Is there anybody here?
Look very carefully, something may appear.
It’s one little, not so little Officer Chillbear.
Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles , which she made in 1975 when she was 25, almost immediately took its place in the syllabus of every cinema studies course this side of USC. In fact, that’s where I’d first heard of it, back when I was in school, in film theory class from a French visiting lecturer in semiotics, who, owing to both the content of what she said and the accent with which she said it, was almost entirely incomprehensible.