Director: Chantal Akerman
Almayer’s Folly
Directed by Chantal Akerman
With Almayer’s Folly, Akerman tackles the terrible legacy of the European colonial project in Southeast Asia head-on through an adaptation …
Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman
Directed by Chantal Akerman
In Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman, the filmmaker turns a commission for Cinéma, de notre temps from ARTE, the French …
Chantal Akerman Short Films 1968-1997
Directed by Chantal Akerman
This program presents a series of short films by Chantal Akerman from her earliest film Saute ma Ville (1968) to …
D’Est (From the East)
Directed by Chantal Akerman
D'Est is Chantal Akerman’s first documentary film shot on trips taken as the Soviet system was about to collapse, and echoes …
From the Other Side
Directed by Chantal Akerman
On the Mexico-US border, the twin towns of Agua Prieta, Sonora and Douglas, Arizona—far from the population centers of Juarez/El …
Histoires d’Amérique (Food, Family, and Philosophy)
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Shot in New York, Akerman’s first English-language film Histoires d’Amerique conjures up an informal history of Jewish life over the …
J’ai faim, j’ai froid & Portrait d’une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles
Directed by Chantal Akerman
CANCELLED — Young female characters take the lead roles in Akerman’s early films in which they seek their own identities …
Je tu il elle
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Like her spare, haunting portrait of a wandering filmmaker Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978), Akerman originally wrote Je tu il elle …
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman and Saute ma ville are both depictions of a woman’s work in the home, but portray …
Là-bas (Over There)
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Là-bas is one of Akerman’s most fragile and powerful works, in which she uses her own voice to personalize and …
Le 15/8 & Dis-moi
Directed by Chantal Akerman
These three early Chantal Akerman films (spanning the 1970s) bring together different structures by which Akerman finds her own voice—through …
Le Demenagement & Le Jour Où
Directed by Chantal Akerman
In a script written by Akerman, a man stands in his new apartment in a state of inertia and dislocation. …
Les rendez-vous d’Anna
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Before pursuing filmmaking, Chantal Akerman set out to be a writer. Like her earlier feature Je tu il elle (1975), …
Letters Home
Directed by Chantal Akerman
CANCELLED—On 11 February 1963, Sylvia Plath, poet and author of The Bell Jar, thirty years old, married, with two children, killed …
Lettre d’un cinéaste: Chantal Akerman
Directed by Chantal Akerman
This program presents three films across three decades on artist/filmmaker Chantal Akerman, who directs two of the films in which …
Lettre d’un cinéaste, Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman & Autour de “Jeanne Dielman”
Directed by Chantal Akerman
This program presents three films across three decades on artist/filmmaker Chantal Akerman, who directs two of the films in which …
News from Home
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Akerman returned to New York in 1976, having blazed a trail in Europe with her extraordinary Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai …
No Home Movie
Directed by Chantal Akerman
"At the center of Akerman’s enormous body of work is her mother, a Holocaust survivor who married and raised a …
Nuit et jour (Night and Day)
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Julie and Jack, recently arrived in Paris, are a young couple from the provinces who spend their days making love …
Rue Mallet-Stevens, Hôtel Monterey & Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher (1972-1989)
Directed by Chantal Akerman
This program presents three Chantal Akerman films from 1972 to 1986, including one of her first feature films made in …
Sud
Directed by Chantal Akerman
The work of James Baldwin and William Faulkner long influenced Chantal Akerman’s work and life, and she had long planned …
Toute une nuit
Directed by Chantal Akerman
One summer night in Brussels, sweltering heat stifles the community, which draws people out of their comfort zone and into …
Un jour Pina M’a Demande (One Day Pina Asked)
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Born a decade apart, Chantal Akerman (1950–2015) and Pina Bausch (1940–2009) were two remarkable female artists who redefined our cultural …