
Cabello/Carceller
In their latest video installation, A Film With No Intention. After Chantel Akerman, the collective Cabello/Carceller pays homage to the director’s veiled autobiographical film Les rendez-vous d'Anna (1978). The duo take as a starting point one short scene in which the protagonist walks to the window of a generic-looking hotel room and pulls back a curtain to look out over a city. Akerman traps her audience in a double denial of visual expectations. She captures the character with her back to the camera, withholding both the expected view of Anna’s face and the subjective shot that would have