Chantal Akerman
Chantal Anne Akerman (June 6, 1950 – October 5, 2015) was a Belgian film director, artist and professor of film at the City College of New York. Her best-known film is Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). Despite being categorised as such by others, Akerman frequently distanced herself from the feminist label, explaining, "when people say there is a feminist film language, it is like saying there is only one way for women to express themselves". Instead, Akerman acknowledged that her cinematic approach took inspiration from the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, as well as from filmmakers Michael Snow and Jean-Luc Godard. Many directors have cited Akerman's directorial style as an influence on their work. Kelly Reichardt, Gus Van Sant, and Sofia Coppola have noted their exploration of filming in real time as a tribute to Akerman.
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
as Neighbor (voice) (uncredited)A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives...
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Je Tu Il Elle
as JulieA woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.
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What Is Cinema?
as SelfUsing the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock...
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News from Home
as Narrator (voice)Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts...
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Porto
as (voice)Jake and Mati are two outsiders in the northerly Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a...
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La chambre
as Self - On her bedFurniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with...
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Delphine and Carole
as Self (archive footage)In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists,...
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No Home Movie
as SelfDocumentary about humans dealing with changing technology, the basic concepts of communication,...
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Blow Up My Town
as The girlA young girl shuts herself away in her apartment and goes about her business in a strange way,...
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I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
as SelfI Don’t Belong Anywhere - Le Cinéma de Chantal Akerman, explores some of the Belgian...
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She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
as uncreditedA young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film...
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Birth of a Nation
as SelfFilmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman
as SelfIn this 2007 interview, an off-camera Chantal Akerman interviews her mother about her films. The...
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Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman
as SelfA filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément...
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From the Other Side
as Self (Narrator - Interviewer)A documentary look at the fate of Mexicans who cross the border into the United States.
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Seven Women, Seven Sins
as Woman (segment Portrait d'une Paresseuse)Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women...
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Guest
as SelfFilmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of...
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Sodankylä Forever
as SelfThe Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the...
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The Man with the Suitcase
as The WomanA sensitivity to sounds coming from the activities of an unwelcome guest in the close quarters...
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One Day Pina Asked...
as Self (uncredited)Chantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The...
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Autour de Jeanne Dielman
as SelfDuring the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film...
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‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
as uncreditedVarious unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.
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The Ministries of Art
as SelfPhilippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean...
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Portrait of a Lazy Woman
as uncreditedBelgian director Chantal Akerman struggles to overcome her laziness in the name of making a film...
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Pictures of Europe
as SelfWhat makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary,...
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Maniac Summer
as SelfManiac Summer consists of images and sounds recorded in Paris in the summer of 2009. It is a...
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applechedikal
as A smiling woman looking straight at the cameraUnemployed guests constantly pour into Jane's house, mistaking her for the previous tenant, a...
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Knokke: une petite fiction 2
as SelfA 3rd short super 8 film made by Chantal Akerman in Knokke to be used to be accepted at INSAS...
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Down There
as Self (voice)Akerman spends a brief period on her own in an apartment by the sea in Tel Aviv. She films from...
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Family Business
as SelfChantal Akerman was commissioned by Visions to make this short film for £20,000. It was first...
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The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman
as Herself (uncredited)A young mother, alone with her daughter, confides in a friend who happens to be the director...
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Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman
as SelfJanine Bazin and André Labarthe approached Chantal Akerman about making a film for the series;...
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Chantal Akerman - Always on the Move
as Self (archive footage)Chantal Akerman is only 25 when her acclaimed film 'Jeanne Dielman' is released in 1975. It is a...
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Tell Me
as SelfChantal Akerman meets with elderly Jewish women in Paris, all of them survivors of the Shoah,...
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Mallet-Stevens Street
as uncreditedCommissioned for the centenary of the famous French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens...
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Son chant
as SelfGoing through my mini DVs shot over the past decade, I rediscovered a forgotten night sequence...
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The Art of Time
as SelfExplores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects...
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Interview with Aurore Clément
as Self"Aurore, my friend, Aurore, the main actress of Rendez-vous d'Anna and other films of mine, our...
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But Elsewhere Is Always Better
as SelfA new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with their first...
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Examen d'entrée INSAS
as uncreditedThe beginnings of Chantal Akerman behind the camera at the ages of 17 and 18: four films shot in...
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Chantal Akerman
as SelfInterview with the Belgian director discussing her films from the 1970s and her mother’s...
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Chantal Akerman, From Here
as SelfInvented by the post-New Wave, the exercise is well-known: put a filmmaker in the frame, make...
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Interview with Babette Mangolte
as Self"To begin with, we have Babette Mangolte, the camera technician on Hotel Monterey, La Chambre...
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My Mother Laughs Prelude
as Self“My mother laughs prelude” is a performance from the book that Chantal made about her mother. In...
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The Day When...
as SelfChantal Akerman reads a script detailing the woes that befell her on the day she thought about...
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Autour de La Folie Almayer
as SelfAn in-depth, behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Chantal Akerman's 2011 film...
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as SelfA talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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