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
- On Belonging as Self
- No Home Movie as Self
- But Elsewhere Is Always Better as Self
- My Name is Chantal Akerman 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
- Chantal Akerman, From Here as Self
- On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici! ... (Co-Director)
- Les variations Dielman ... (Thanks)
2009
- Maniac Summer as Self
- East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton ... (Director)
- The Art of Time as Self
2007
- Interview with Aurore Clément as Self
- Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman as Self
- The State of the World ... (Director)
- Interview with Babette Mangolte as Self
- Nightfall in Shanghai ... (Director)
2006
- Down There as Self (voice)
- Chantal Akerman, an autobiography
2004
- Making of Tomorrow We Move as self
- Tomorrow We Move ... (Director)
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)
- Monologues ... (Director)
- From the East ... (Writer)
1991
- Lest We Forget ... (Director)
- Night and Day ... (Director)
- For Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador ... (Director)
1990
- Pictures of Europe as Self
1989
- Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas ... (Director)
- American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy ... (Director)
- One Day Pina Asked... as Self (uncredited)
- The Ministries of Art as Self
- Three Stanzas on the Name of Sacher ... (Director)
1988
- Calling the Shots as Self
1987
- L'inhumaine as -
1986
- Portrait of a Lazy Woman
- Letters Home ... (Director)
- Mallet-Stevens Street
- Golden Eighties ... (Director)
- The Hammer ... (Director)
- Seven Women, Seven Sins as Film Director (segment Portrait d'une Paresseuse)
1985
- The Eighties ... (Writer)
- She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
1984
- Family Business as Self
- Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman as Self
- De droomproducenten as Self
- I'm Hungry, I'm Cold ... (Director)
- Paris Seen By... 20 Years After ... (Director)
1983
- The Man with the Suitcase as The Woman
1982
- All Night Long ... (Director)
- Hôtel des Acacias ... (Writer)
1980
- Tell Me as Self
1978
- The Meetings of Anna ... (Writer)
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
- Hotel Monterey ... (Writer)
- Le 15/8 ... (Director)
- Hanging Out Yonkers ... (Writer)
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
- Examen d'entrée INSAS
- Knokke: une petite fiction 2 as Self
- Knokke: une petite fiction ... (Director)
- Bruxelles: à la Foire du Midi ... (Director)
- Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn ... (Director)