Chantal Akerman
Born: 1950-06-06 in Brussels, Belgium
Died: 2015-10-05
Known For: Directing
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 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.
Filmography
2024
- Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road as Self (archive footage)
- In Her Own Words as Self
2022
- Autour de La Folie Almayer as Self
2021
- Morceaux de Cannes
- Son chant as Self
2020
- Delphine and Carole as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Porto as (voice)
2016
- But Elsewhere Is Always Better as Self
- No Home Movie as Self
- My Name is Chantal Akerman as Self
- On Belonging as Self
2015
- I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman as Self
- Now ... (Director)
- What Lies Beneath the Sky as Narrator(voice)
2013
- What Is Cinema? as Self
- Chantal Akerman as Self
2012
- Almayer's Folly ... (Director)
- My Mother Laughs Prelude as Self
2011
- Guest as Self
2010
- Sodankylä Forever as Self
- On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici! ... (Co-Director)
- Les variations Dielman ... (Thanks)
- Chantal Akerman, From Here as Self
2009
- The Art of Time as Self
- East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton ... (Director)
- Maniac Summer as Self
2007
- The State of the World ... (Director)
- Interview with Babette Mangolte as Self
- Nightfall in Shanghai ... (Director)
- Interview with Aurore Clément as Self
- Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman as Self
2006
- Down There as Self (voice)
2004
- Tomorrow We Move ... (Director)
- Making of Tomorrow We Move as self
2003
- From the Other Side as Self (Narrator - Interviewer)
- With Sonia Wieder-Atherton ... (Director)
2000
- The Captive ... (Director)
- No Vladimir ... (Supervising Producer)
1999
- South ... (Director)
1997
- Birth of a Nation as Self
- Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman as Self
- The Day When... as Self
1996
- A Couch in New York ... (Director)
1994
- All the Boys and Girls of Their Time ... (Director)
- Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels ... (Director)
1993
- Monologues ... (Director)
- From the East ... (Director)
- Moving In ... (Director)
1991
- Lest We Forget ... (Director)
- Night and Day ... (Director)
- For Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador ... (Director)
1990
- Pictures of Europe as Self
1989
- One Day Pina Asked... as Self (uncredited)
- The Ministries of Art as Self
- American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy ... (Director)
- Three Stanzas on the Name of Sacher ... (Director)
- Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas ... (Director)
1988
- Calling the Shots as Self
1987
- L'inhumaine as -
1986
- Golden Eighties ... (Director)
- Seven Women, Seven Sins as Film Director (segment Portrait d'une Paresseuse)
- Letters Home ... (Director)
- Mallet-Stevens Street
- The Hammer ... (Director)
- Portrait of a Lazy Woman
1985
- She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
- The Eighties ... (Director)
1984
- De droomproducenten as Self
- Family Business as Self
- Paris Seen By... 20 Years After ... (Director)
- I'm Hungry, I'm Cold ... (Director)
- Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman as Self
1983
- The Man with the Suitcase as The Woman
1982
- Toute une nuit ... (Director)
- Hôtel des Acacias ... (Director)
1980
- Tell Me as Self
1978
- The Meetings of Anna ... (Director)
1977
- News from Home as Narrator (voice)
1976
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles as Neighbor (voice) (uncredited)
- Chantal Akerman: An Interview as Chantal Akerman
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Autour de Jeanne Dielman as Self
1973
- Hanging Out Yonkers ... (Director)
- Hotel Monterey ... (Director)
- Le 15/8 ... (Director)
1972
- La chambre as Self - On her bed
1971
- The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman as Herself (uncredited)
1970
1968
- Saute ma ville as The girl
1967
- Bruxelles: à la Foire du Midi ... (Director)
- Knokke: une petite fiction 2 as Self
- Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn ... (Director)
- Knokke: une petite fiction ... (Director)
- Examen d'entrée INSAS