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
- In Her Own Words as Self
- Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road as Self (archive footage)
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
- No Home Movie as Self
- On Belonging as Self
- My Name is Chantal Akerman as Self
- But Elsewhere Is Always Better as Self
2015
- I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman as Self
- What Lies Beneath the Sky as Narrator(voice)
- Now ... (Director)
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
- On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici! ... (Co-Director)
- Chantal Akerman, From Here as Self
- Les variations Dielman ... (Thanks)
2009
- East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton ... (Director)
- Maniac Summer as Self
- The Art of Time as Self
2007
- The State of the World ... (Director)
- Interview with Babette Mangolte as Self
- Interview with Aurore Clément as Self
- Interview with my Mother, Natalia Akerman as Self
- Nightfall in Shanghai ... (Director)
2006
- Down There as Self (voice)
- Chantal Akerman, an autobiography
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
- Moving In ... (Director)
- From the East ... (Director)
- Monologues ... (Director)
1991
- Night and Day ... (Director)
- Lest We Forget ... (Director)
- For Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador ... (Director)
1990
- Pictures of Europe as Self
1989
- The Ministries of Art as Self
- American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy ... (Director)
- Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas ... (Director)
- One Day Pina Asked... as Self (uncredited)
- Three Stanzas on the Name of Sacher ... (Director)
1988
- Calling the Shots as Self
1987
- L'inhumaine as -
1986
- Golden Eighties ... (Director)
- Letters Home ... (Director)
- Portrait of a Lazy Woman
- Seven Women, Seven Sins as Film Director (segment Portrait d'une Paresseuse)
- Mallet-Stevens Street
- The Hammer ... (Director)
1985
- She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
- The Eighties ... (Director)
1984
- Family Business as Self
- Paris Seen By... 20 Years After ... (Director)
- Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman as Self
- I'm Hungry, I'm Cold ... (Director)
- De droomproducenten as Self
1983
- The Man with the Suitcase as The Woman
1982
- Hôtel des Acacias ... (Writer)
- Toute une nuit ... (Director)
1980
- Grands mères as Self
- Tell Me as Self
1978
- Ciné regards as Self
- The Meetings of Anna ... (Director)
1976
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles as Neighbor (voice) (uncredited)
- Hotel Monterey ... (Director)
- News from Home as Self - Letter Reader (voice)
- Chantal Akerman: An Interview as Chantal Akerman
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Around Jeanne Dielman as Self
1973
- Le 15/8 ... (Director)
- Hanging Out Yonkers ... (Director)
1972
- La chambre as Self - On Her Bed
1971
- The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman as Self (uncredited)
1970
1968
- Saute ma ville as The Girl
1967
- Bruxelles: À la Foire du Midi ... (Director)
- Knokke: Une petite fiction 2 as Self (uncredited)
- Knokke: Une petite fiction ... (Director)
- Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn ... (Director)
- Examen d'entrée INSAS