This article aims to define the body and its movements of the characters in the film of Chantal Akerman, Belgian director, as `feminine gestus`. Gestus is the opposite of gesture, and it is a behavior that shows social behaviors and relationships with...
This article aims to define the body and its movements of the characters in the film of Chantal Akerman, Belgian director, as `feminine gestus`. Gestus is the opposite of gesture, and it is a behavior that shows social behaviors and relationships with others. A feminine gestus means that woman`s body is predominantly gesturing to show her own identity, man`s body can be identified only with the action towards the society and the environment to which he belongs. If masculine gestus demonstrates its identity through the caracters and their actions. feminie gestus has a secret power across times, places, and circumstances, a feminine gestus, despite appearing trapped by mans, but in fact it has a secret power across times, circumstances, and places. In the film of Chantal Ackerman, such as Blow up My Town, I, you, he, she, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, All Night Long, Golden eighties, Gallery, feminine gestus is throwing great significance throughout the film.In these films, sudden gestures often lead to a dramatic reversal of the film, in which passive characters are not really passive but they are the most resistive and active characters. These characters are not merely organic bodies, but non-physical bodies, thinking bodies.In this paper, we analyzed the body, space, and dance, and also examined cinematic devices such as longtake, close-up, and sound effects. these elements make feminin gestus stand out. Through this, we can find two points. first, director Akerman has the aspect of a partner as a feminism rather than feminist as an ideology, and next, she is a great director who showed best that action implies emotion.