Chantal Akerman Movies

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

"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". –...

"A man stands amid unpacked boxes in his new home, delivering an extended monologue on indecision and dislocation. This rarely seen, overlooked gem...

Several young men and women arrive one after the other at Hôtel des Acacias, full of hope, desire and vitality. In the bustle of this hotel,...

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...

Two girls come to Paris for the first time and try to live.

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 –...

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

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets....

Chantal Akerman investigates the American Deep South through the story of a lynching and grisly murder of an African-American man that took place in...

The hammer is the tool a sculptor uses to chip away at the block. It is the emblematic tool of French artist Jean-Luc Vilmouth. Akerman here...

Found footage using Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman.

"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...

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'...

Scenes of life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. In this road movie of still lifes, which eschews voiceover narration, the...

In this 2007 interview, an off-camera Chantal Akerman interviews her mother about her films. The producers of the interview originally intended to...

The program Cinéma, cinémas regularly commissioned filmmakers to produce a cinematic letter in which they were asked to share their...

Interview with the Belgian director discussing her films from the 1970s and her mother’s influence on her work.

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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 the...