Chantal Akerman | NW Film Center

With Almayer’s Folly, Akerman tackles the terrible legacy of the European colonial project in Southeast Asia head-on through an adaptation …

In Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman, the filmmaker turns a commission for Cinéma, de notre temps from ARTE, the French …

This program presents a series of short films by Chantal Akerman from her earliest film Saute ma Ville (1968) to …

D'Est is Chantal Akerman’s first documentary film shot on trips taken as the Soviet system was about to collapse, and echoes …

On the Mexico-US border, the twin towns of Agua Prieta, Sonora and Douglas, Arizona—far from the population centers of Juarez/El …

Shot in New York, Akerman’s first English-language film Histoires d’Amerique conjures up an informal history of Jewish life over the …

CANCELLED — Young female characters take the lead roles in Akerman’s early films in which they seek their own identities …

Like her spare, haunting portrait of a wandering filmmaker Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978), Akerman originally wrote Je tu il elle …

Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman and Saute ma ville are both depictions of a woman’s work in the home, but portray …

Là-bas is one of Akerman’s most fragile and powerful works, in which she uses her own voice to personalize and …

These three early Chantal Akerman films (spanning the 1970s) bring together different structures by which Akerman finds her own voice—through …

In a script written by Akerman, a man stands in his new apartment in a state of inertia and dislocation. …

Director: Chantal Akerman