“I don’t feel like giving any sense of hierarchy to the pictures in my movies, and so, consequently, that brings a certain kind of flatness. If, as a director, you give a sense of hierarchy to things, people can no longer choose. When you display things without hierarchy, it’s up to each and every one to realise and relate to what’s going on. It gives enough room to the human being, to the individual before the movie.” – Chantal Ackerman, in Les ministères de l’art by Philippe Garel (1986) about her movie Golden Eighties A fall-winter 2015 2016 wardrobe in