Chantal Akerman

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.

Cast

Blow Up My Town

(The girl)

Seven Women, Seven Sins

(Woman (segment Portrait d'une Paresseuse))

Je Tu Il Elle

(Julie)

News from Home

(Narrator (voice))

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

(Neighbor (voice) (uncredited))

La chambre

(Self - On her bed)

She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps

Pictures of Europe

(Self)

Chantal Akerman, From Here

(Self)

Guest

(Self)

applechedikal

(A smiling woman looking straight at the camera)

Chantal Akerman: An Interview

(Chantal Akerman)

Knokke: une petite fiction 2

(Self)

Autour de La Folie Almayer

(Self)

Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman

(Self)

No Home Movie

(Self)

The Man with the Suitcase

(The Woman)

Porto

((voice))

I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman

(Self)

L'inhumaine

(-)

Tell Me

(Self)

The Ministries of Art

(Self)

What Is Cinema?

(Self)

Chantal Akerman - Always on the Move

(Self (archive footage))

Family Business

(Self)

The Day When...

(Self)

My Name is Chantal Akerman

(Self)

Autour d’hier aujourd’hui et demain (on déménage)

(self)

The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman

(Herself (uncredited))

What Lies Beneath the Sky

(Narrator(voice))

Autour de Jeanne Dielman

(Self)

Birth of a Nation

(Self)

Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman

(Self)

Down There

(Self (voice))

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

But Elsewhere Is Always Better

(Self)

Maniac Summer

(Self)

De droomproducenten

(Self)

Chantal Akerman

(Self)

Portrait of a Lazy Woman

Mallet-Stevens Street

Interview with Aurore Clément

(Self)

Interview with Babette Mangolte

(Self)

Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman

(Self)

My Mother Laughs Prelude

(Self)

Delphine and Carole

(Self (archive footage))

One Day Pina Asked...

(Self (uncredited))

Sodankylä Forever

(Self)

The Art of Time

(Self)

Son chant

(Self)

Examen d'entrée INSAS

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

(Self)

Crew

Toute une nuit

(Director)

Golden Eighties

(Director)

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

(Director)

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

(Writer)

The Captive

(Director)

A Couch in New York

(Director)

Against Oblivion

(Director)

Blow Up My Town

(Director)

On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici!

(Co-Director)

The Meetings of Anna

(Director)

The Meetings of Anna

(Writer)

Je Tu Il Elle

(Director)

Je Tu Il Elle

(Writer)

Je Tu Il Elle

(Producer)

From the Other Side

(Director)

From the East

(Director)

From the East

(Writer)

News from Home

(Director)

News from Home

(Writer)

Almayer's Folly

(Director)

Almayer's Folly

(Producer)

Almayer's Folly

(Writer)

Tomorrow We Move

(Director)

Night and Day

(Director)

Night and Day

(Writer)

Hotel Monterey

(Director)

Hotel Monterey

(Writer)

Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels

(Director)

La chambre

(Director)

The State of the World

(Director)

The Eighties

(Director)

The Eighties

(Writer)

Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman

(Director)

Chantal Akerman: Her First Look Behind the Camera

(Director)

Le 15/8

(Director)

The Hammer

(Director)

South

(Director)

Seven Women, Seven Sins

(Director)

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After

(Director)

One Day Pina Asked...

(Director)

Down There

(Director)

American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy

(Director)

Three Stanzas on the Name of Sacher

(Director)

Autour de Jeanne Dielman

(Editor)

The Captive

(Writer)

Les variations Dielman

(Thanks)

With Sonia Wieder-Atherton

(Director)

Tomorrow We Move

(Writer)

No Home Movie

(Director)

No Home Movie

(Writer)

Knokke: une petite fiction

(Director)

Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn

(Director)

Knokke: une petite fiction 2

(Director)

Bruxelles: à la Foire du Midi

(Director)

The Man with the Suitcase

(Director)

Seven Women, Seven Sins

(Writer)

Tell Me

(Director)

Letters Home

(Director)

Hôtel des Acacias

(Director)

Hotel Monterey

(Producer)

Moving In

(Director)

Moving In

(Writer)

Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas

(Director)

No Home Movie

(Director of Photography)

Family Business

(Director)

Family Business

(Writer)

The Day When...

(Director)

The Day When...

(Writer)

The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman

(Director)

The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman

(Writer)

Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels

(Writer)

I'm Hungry, I'm Cold

(Director)

For Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador

(Director)

The Man with the Suitcase

(Writer)

La chambre

(Editor)

No Vladimir

(Supervising Producer)

South

(Writer)

Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman

(Director)

From the Other Side

(Writer)

Down There

(Writer)

Down There

(Cinematography)

East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton

(Director)

From the Other Side

(Director of Photography)

Golden Eighties

(Writer)

Women from Antwerp in November

(Director)

Autour d’hier aujourd’hui et demain (on déménage)

(Director)

Maniac Summer

(Director)

Maniac Summer

(Cinematography)

Maniac Summer

(Editor)

Toute une nuit

(Screenplay)

La chambre

(Writer)

Portrait of a Lazy Woman

(Director)

Portrait of a Lazy Woman

(Writer)

Mallet-Stevens Street

(Director)

Mallet-Stevens Street

(Writer)

Nightfall in Shanghai

(Director)

Interview with Aurore Clément

(Director)

Interview with Babette Mangolte

(Director)

Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman

(Director)

A Couch in New York

(Screenplay)

A Couch in New York

(Dialogue)

Hanging Out Yonkers

(Director)

Hanging Out Yonkers

(Writer)

My Mother Laughs Prelude

(Director)

Le 15/8

(Writer)

No Home Movie

(Producer)

No Home Movie

(Sound)

Examen d'entrée INSAS

(Director)

Monologues

(Director)

All the Boys and Girls of Their Time

(Director)