Chantal Akerman

In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. ...

Documentary about humans dealing with changing technology, the basic concepts of communication, cinema, and Akerman’s mother, seen in her ...

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, ...

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike ...

Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film. What ...

Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to ...

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 ...

A documentary look at the fate of Mexicans who cross the border into the United States.

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

Janine Bazin and André Labarthe approached Chantal Akerman about making a film for the series; eagerly, Akerman proposed a number of ...

Chantal Akerman reads a script detailing the woes that befell her on the day she thought about “The Future of Cinema”. The camera ...

What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences ...

Chantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The Tanzteater Wuppertal, for five weeks while they were on ...

Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos ...

Belgian director Chantal Akerman struggles to overcome her laziness in the name of making a film about the subject.

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were ...

Commissioned for the centenary of the famous French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens and shot on the street that bears his name in ...

A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Documentary exploring why Belgian television doesn’t invest more money in Belgian cinema as is the case in e.g. the netherlands.

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 ...

Chantal Akerman meets with elderly Jewish women in Paris, all of them survivors of the Shoah, and listens to their family stories. Between ...