Directing · b. 1950 · Brussels, Belgium

Chantal Akerman

Biography

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 Guatt...

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No Home Movie 2016 Now 2015 Almayer's Folly 2012 My Mother Laughs Prelude 2012 East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton 2009 Maniac Summer 2009 The State of the World 2007 Nightfall in Shanghai 2007 Interview with Aurore Clément 2007 Interview with Babette Mangolte 2007 Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman 2007 Down There 2006 Tomorrow We Move 2004 Making of Tomorrow We Move 2004 From the Other Side 2003 With Sonia Wieder-Atherton 2003 The Captive 2000 South 1999 Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman 1997 The Day When... 1997 A Couch in New York 1996 Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels 1994 From the East 1993 Moving In 1993 Against Oblivion 1991 Night and Day 1991 For Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador 1991 One Day Pina Asked... 1989 American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy 1989 Three Stanzas on the Name of Sacher 1989 Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas 1989 Golden Eighties 1986 The Hammer 1986 Seven Women, Seven Sins 1986 Letters Home 1986 Portrait of a Lazy Woman 1986 Mallet-Stevens Street 1986 The Eighties 1985 Paris Seen By... 20 Years After 1984 Family Business 1984 I'm Hungry, I'm Cold 1984 Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman 1984 The Man with the Suitcase 1983 Toute une nuit 1982 Hôtel des Acacias 1982 Tell Me 1980 The Meetings of Anna 1978 News from Home 1977 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1976 Je Tu Il Elle 1974 Hotel Monterey 1973 Le 15/8 1973 Hanging Out Yonkers 1973 La chambre 1972 The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman 1971 Untitled 1970 Saute ma ville 1968 Knokke: une petite fiction 1967 Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn 1967 Knokke: une petite fiction 2 1967 Bruxelles: à la Foire du Midi 1967 Examen d'entrée INSAS 1967
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