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.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.199 |
| Birthday | 1950-06-06 |
| Place of Birth | Brussels, Belgium |
| Also Known As | Chantal Anne Akerman, Chantal Ackerman, 샹탈 아커만, 샹탈 아케르만, 샹탈 애커만, |
1968
Blow Up My Town
6.4/47
A young girl shuts herself away in her apartment and goes about her business in a strange way, as she wastes the night in the kitchen – humming all a...
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Blow Up My Town
1986
Seven Women, Seven Sins
5.8/9
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amon...
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Seven Women, Seven Sins
1974
Je Tu Il Elle
6.4/78
A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.
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Je Tu Il Elle
1977
News from Home
7.1/68
Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The C...
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News from Home
1976
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
7.4/298
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick...
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
1972
La chambre
5.2/31
Furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back. This breakthrough forma...
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La chambre
1985
She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
7.4/8
A young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined , and the...
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She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
1990
Pictures of Europe
0/0
What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between...
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Pictures of Europe
2010
Chantal Akerman, From Here
5.7/3
Invented by the post-New Wave, the exercise is well-known: put a filmmaker in the frame, make him talk about his career, evoke his admirations, rummag...
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Chantal Akerman, From Here
2011
Guest
6/8
Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What emerges...
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Guest
2023
applechedikal
0/0
Unemployed guests constantly pour into Jane's house, mistaking her for the previous tenant, a mystery man. Jane, though unemployed, lives her innocent...
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applechedikal
1976
Chantal Akerman: An Interview
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Chantal Akerman: An Interview
1967
Knokke: une petite fiction 2
5.5/2
A 3rd short super 8 film made by Chantal Akerman in Knokke to be used to be accepted at INSAS starring her friends her mother and herself.
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Knokke: une petite fiction 2
2022
Autour de La Folie Almayer
0/0
An in-depth, behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Chantal Akerman's 2011 film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's book about a merchant, whose...
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Autour de La Folie Almayer
1997
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman
6/4
Janine Bazin and André Labarthe approached Chantal Akerman about making a film for the series; eagerly, Akerman proposed a number of filmmakers—but al...
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Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman
2016
No Home Movie
6.8/29
Documentary about humans dealing with changing technology, the basic concepts of communication, cinema, and Akerman's mother, seen in her Brussels apa...
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No Home Movie
1983
The Man with the Suitcase
6.1/7
A sensitivity to sounds coming from the activities of an unwelcome guest in the close quarters of an apartment is only one important component in this...
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The Man with the Suitcase
2017
Porto
5.7/38
Jake and Mati are two outsiders in the northerly Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a brief connection. A mystery remains about the moments...
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Porto
2015
I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
6.5/13
I Don’t Belong Anywhere - Le Cinéma de Chantal Akerman, explores some of the Belgian filmmaker’s 40 plus films. From Brussels to Tel-Aviv, from Paris...
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I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
1987
L'inhumaine
0/0
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L'inhumaine
1980
Tell Me
5.4/5
Chantal Akerman meets with elderly Jewish women in Paris, all of them survivors of the Shoah, and listens to their family stories. Between interviews,...
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Tell Me
1989
The Ministries of Art
6.3/3
Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Ja...
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The Ministries of Art
2013
What Is Cinema?
6.2/20
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, Da...
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What Is Cinema?
2024
Chantal Akerman - Always on the Move
0/0
Chantal Akerman is only 25 when her acclaimed film 'Jeanne Dielman' is released in 1975. It is a bold film, with which she immediately makes a name fo...
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Chantal Akerman - Always on the Move
1984
Family Business
7/5
Chantal Akerman was commissioned by Visions to make this short film for £20,000. It was first shown on 21 November 1984, on Channel 4. Akerman herself...
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Family Business
1997
The Day When...
7/2
Chantal Akerman reads a script detailing the woes that befell her on the day she thought about "The Future of Cinema". The camera continuously rotate...
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The Day When...
2016
My Name is Chantal Akerman
0/0
In August 2012, Chantal Akerman went scouting in the American South with the idea of shooting a documentary there, inspired by the story of Jake Engla...
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My Name is Chantal Akerman
2004
Autour d’hier aujourd’hui et demain (on déménage)
0/0
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Autour d’hier aujourd’hui et demain (on déménage)
1971
The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman
5.8/4
A young mother, alone with her daughter, confides in a friend who happens to be the director herself. Chantal Akerman, although she sympathizes with t...
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The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman
2015
What Lies Beneath the Sky
0/0
What Lies Beneath the Sky is a portrait of New York City hit by hurricane Sandy shot in Super 8.
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What Lies Beneath the Sky
1975
Autour de Jeanne Dielman
6/2
During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film about a film in the making.
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Autour de Jeanne Dielman
1997
Birth of a Nation
6.3/3
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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Birth of a Nation
1984
Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman
6/1
A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a glamorous counterpa...
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Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman
2006
Down There
4.8/9
Akerman spends a brief period on her own in an apartment by the sea in Tel Aviv. She films from the apartment and in her narration she talks about he...
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Down There
1974
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
7.9/7
Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.
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‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
2016
But Elsewhere Is Always Better
0/0
A new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with their first meeting in the early 1970s. Using her own footage of Chan...
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But Elsewhere Is Always Better
2009
Maniac Summer
0/0
Maniac Summer consists of images and sounds recorded in Paris in the summer of 2009. It is a sprawling triptych without a beginning or end and with no...
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Maniac Summer
1984
De droomproducenten
0/0
Documentary exploring why Belgian television doesn't invest more money in Belgian cinema as is the case in e.g. the netherlands.
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De droomproducenten
2013
Chantal Akerman
0/0
Interview with the Belgian director discussing her films from the 1970s and her mother’s influence on her work.
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Chantal Akerman
1986
Portrait of a Lazy Woman
6.6/8
Belgian director Chantal Akerman struggles to overcome her laziness in the name of making a film about the subject.
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Portrait of a Lazy Woman
1986
Mallet-Stevens Street
0/0
Commissioned for the centenary of the famous French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens and shot on the street that bears his name in Paris'...
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Mallet-Stevens Street
2007
Interview with Aurore Clément
0/0
"Aurore, my friend, Aurore, the main actress of Rendez-vous d'Anna and other films of mine, our meeting, the why and how of our joint work". – Chantal...
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Interview with Aurore Clément
2007
Interview with Babette Mangolte
0/0
"To begin with, we have Babette Mangolte, the camera technician on Hotel Monterey, La Chambre and Jeanne Dielman, but who for me also symbolises the N...
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Interview with Babette Mangolte
2007
Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman
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In this 2007 interview, an off-camera Chantal Akerman interviews her mother about her films. The producers of the interview originally intended to edi...
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Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman
2012
My Mother Laughs Prelude
0/0
“My mother laughs prelude” is a performance from the book that Chantal made about her mother. In 2013, Akerman’s mother was dying. She flew back from...
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My Mother Laughs Prelude
2020
Delphine and Carole
7/13
In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They doc...
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Delphine and Carole
1989
One Day Pina Asked...
5.5/4
Chantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The Tanzteater Wuppertal, for five weeks while they were on tour...
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One Day Pina Asked...
2010
Sodankylä Forever
0/0
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by...
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Sodankylä Forever
2009
The Art of Time
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Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter the...
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The Art of Time
2015
Son chant
0/0
Going through my mini DVs shot over the past decade, I rediscovered a forgotten night sequence of Chantal Akerman and Sonia Wieder-Atherton leaving a...
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Son chant
1967
Examen d'entrée INSAS
0/0
The beginnings of Chantal Akerman behind the camera at the ages of 17 and 18: four films shot in Super 8 during the summer, presented to enter the Nat...
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