She was one of the first filmmakers to make the leap from cinema to museum spaces, which allowed her greater freedom and the pleasure of demanding more viewer participation. As a filmmaker, writer, ...
For certain film buffs, Chantal Akerman is famous as the director of one of the screen’s most legendary endurance tests. Akerman’s masterpiece, “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” ...
Chantal Akerman, 1979. (Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images / Micheline Pelletier) The women in Chantal Akerman’s films are domestic and dysfunctional, moving wordlessly through the same household ...
Belgian auteur Chantal Akerman makes a very personal documentary about her own mother. By Boyd van Hoeij No Home Movie Still - H 2015 The films of Belgium’s feminist auteur Chantal Akerman have never ...
Director Chantal Akerman died three years ago today, and I wrote the following remembrance in the Filmmaker newsletter just a few days later but never posted it online. I wrote it from the Venice ...
"A mesmerizing piece of rhythmical film-making." BFI in the UK has unveiled a brand new trailer for the 50th anniversary re-release of a Belgian cinema classic - Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman. The ...
It happened a little over a week ago, but we’re still recovering from the blow that was dealt us upon learning of the death of Chantal Akerman — a quiet revolutionary, a feminist who seemed at points ...
Editor’s note: Filmmaker Chantal Akerman passed away on this date in 2015. To commemorate her life and work, we are revisiting this essay by Arun Chaudhary that speaks to Akerman’s wide-ranging impact ...
'Vertigo' was pushed into second place in Sight & Sound magazine's once-in-a-decade poll, while the highest of just four films made since the last poll in 2012 that broke into the top 100 was Celine ...
The Espace Louis Vuitton in Munich has opened the exhibition Les Approches, displaying works by Chantal Akerman side by side with pieces by Annette Messager, with the support of the Foundation Louis ...
Chantal Akerman’s deliberate and rigorous movies require not just concentration, but also a willingness to meet this Belgian filmmaker on her own terms. They are not for everyone, which is why her ...
A new series at Metrograph features documentaries made by women directors — from Chantal Akerman and Peggy Ahwesh to Yvonne Rainer and Claire Simon — about women's lives. Chantal Akerman’s death by ...
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