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Claire Atherton

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Fire of Wind (2025)

The vine bore fruit, and it's harvest time. Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose. Up in the oak trees, time swells, and a community takes shelter. They share bread and wine, memories and dreams, the histor ...

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The Flame of a Candle (2025)

Northern Portugal. An imposing residence with its garden and magnolia tree. As we know, home is a place that film, this outdoor art, has often used to depict less the joys of family life than a pernicious space. André Gil Mata has made it his stage, with ...

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Man in Black (2023)

Wang Xilin, 86, is one of China's most important modern classical composers. During the Cultural Revolution he was the target of severe persecution, enduring beatings, imprisonment and torture. With excerpts from his Symphonies, he revisits for this film s ...

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Intermede (2022)

Images of a small boatyard, somewhere in Greece. Between the repairs and the boats' departures, a team of men haul them ashore and set them afloat again. A 16 mm film built around gestures and movements that oscillate between a toing and froing, attachment ...

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Didier’s Letters (2022)

A brother writes to his sister. A brother loves his sister. is it true that one can keep a young woman through writing? The ambition is great. A long correspondence of 149 letters, this film is based on the letters that my brother Didier wrote to me. Two ...

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A Flower in the Mouth (2022)

A Flower in the Mouth is a film diptych about time running out and how to live through the days that remain. The first act, filmed as an observational documentary in the world's largest flower market, follows millions of bouquets transiting through a caver ...

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Alterations – Kō Murobushi (2020)

A film that comprises in itself a form of dance – rather than a film about dance; an encounter between film and dance – rather than a film about a dancer. A documentary exploring Kō Murobushi's dance and inner worlds, with purely cinematic means. ...

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A Dramatic Film (2019)

Artist and filmmaker Eric Baudelaire spent four years interacting with the pupils of a film class, at a secondary school in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis. Keeping himself on the sidelines, he gives way to the children to express their thoughts and dre ...

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Also Known as Jihadi (2017)

Also Known as Jihadi follows the progress of a young man's journey from France to Syria, and back to France, where he is incarcerated for allegedly joining Daesh. Based on real events, and drawn from thousands of pages of judicial documents, the work emplo ...

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Silêncio (2016)

Far from their former reality, in an ancient now deserted palace, a group of men and women share their life stories and explain how they survived, living and sleeping in the streets of Porto. ...

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Jumbo/Toto, Stories of an Elephant (2016)

From Germany to Italy, the United States to Île-de-France, Jumbo/Toto, Stories About an Elephant shadows the itinerary of a single forgotten animal, an African elephant doubly-named Jumbo/Toto. Jumbo, as he was called on German colonial ships,at the Ameri ...

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No Home Movie (2016)

Akerman films her mother Natalia, an elderly woman of Polish origin, in her Brussels apartment. For two hours, we will see them eating, chatting and sharing memories, sometimes accompanied by Sylvaine, Chantal's sister. Also, and to show how small the worl ...

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Who killed Ali Ziri ? (2015)

This documentary follows 5 years of struggle for truth and justice after the murder of 69-year-old Ali Ziri by the french police, covered by the judicial institutions. ...

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Hungry Man (2013)

This story of an unexpected encounter between a young boy and a wounded foreigner somewhere in the Romanian wilderness is a parable about the freedom of man in modern society. ...

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My Mother Laughs Prelude (2012)

"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 New York to Brussels to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wr ...

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Almayer's Folly (2012)

In 1940s Malaysia, European merchant Kaspar Almayer is obsessed with finding a treasure to secure his daughter's future. His dreams fall victim to the pressure of his own greed, which becomes a torment. Compounding this is the oppressive English domination ...

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Detroit: Wild City (2010)

A documentary exploring the rise and fall of Detroit. Compiling historical footage and interviews with the city's residents, this meditative documentary looks at a city reclaimed by nature and resettled by 21st century urban pioneers. ...

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Mafrouza/Heart (2010)

The people of the Mafrouza shantytown in Alexandria daily reconstruct themselves and the world around them, but they also question the camera, who answers them and thus becomes a character in the film. ...

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Witches, My Sisters (2010)

Witches, devil's hooks, firebrands ... Who are these women who embody the danger of the times? Feminists for sure, sometimes underground and singular in their approach, here are some witches of today who have met my gaze. ...

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Maniac Summer (2009)

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 specific subject or topic. The camera is positioned in front of a window and left running. It observes mo ...

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East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton (2009)

Presented in 2 parts, this 83 minute piece documents Wieder-Atherton's idea to do a set of pieces from across central and eastern Europe, including Russia. Some weren't originally written for cello, but she had them transcribed. Some were songs for voices, ...

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Down There (2006)

Akerman spends a month in Tel Aviv, in an apartment by the sea, contemplating childhood, family, and her Jewish identity. ...

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Operation Hollywood (2004)

The American military forces has a long tradition of cooperation with the movie industry. Movie studios can save millions of dollars by securing use of military stock footage, equipment and manpower. But there will only be cooperation if the scripts are de ...

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Tomorrow We Move (2004)

Single woman Charlotte tries to write erotic fiction despite not having any sensual experience. ...

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Making of Tomorrow We Move (2004)

What a revelation and a privilege it is to see Chantal Akerman at work. Its French title a pun, this film offers behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Tomorrow We Move: makeup and costume tests, script readings, scene blocking and rehearsals, an ...

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From the Other Side (2003)

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

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The Captive (2000)

Ariane lives with Simon in his large Paris flat. Simon is obsessed with her: he wants to know everything about her, secretly follows her when she goes out, asks questions all the time, even in the most intimate moments. Ariane seems to take it all in strid ...

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South (1999)

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 Texas in 1998. ...

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Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (1997)

Janine Bazin and André Labarthe approached Chantal Akerman about making a film for the series; eagerly, Akerman proposed a number of filmmakers—but all had already been done. So she suggested…"How about me?" Akerman creates a fascinating self-portrait ...

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The Day When... (1997)

Chantal Akerman reads a script detailing the woes that befell her on the day she thought about "The Future of Cinema". The camera continuously rotates 360 degrees around her apartment as she rereads the script at an exponentially increasing speed. At its ...

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A Couch in New York (1996)

A burnt-out New York psychoanalyst exchanges apartments with a Parisian woman. When his patients arrive, they talk to her and then pay. He returns early and becomes a patient as well. ...

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From the East (1993)

In this incisive dispatch from the newly collapsed Soviet empire, bullet holes from WWII still pockmark the old stone buildings. Akerman journeys from East Germany to Moscow between the late summer and winter of 1993 ('while there's still time'), chronicli ...

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In Memory (1987)

One year after the death of Simone de Beauvoir (14 april 1986) Delphine Seyrig pays homage by visiting her grave. which she finds still covered with flowers and letters from all over the world. ...

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Mallet-Stevens Street (1986)

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' 16th arrondissement, Rue Mallet-Stevens depicts a mysterious, nocturnal scene of romance (featuring Akerma ...

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Letters Home (1986)

A filmed adaptation of Rose Leiman Goldemberg's play, based on Sylvia Plath's intense correspondence with her mother Aurelia, from the time the poet was in university until her suicide. Delphine Seyrig and her niece Coralie Seyrig recite Sylvia and Aurelia ...

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Les racistes ne sont pas nos potes, les violeurs non plus (1986)

After a series of rapes in broad daylight in 1985, a demonstration takes place in September. Leaflets accuse the "immigrant criminal underworld." Immigrants and Muslims are blamed. Eight feminists: Claire Atherton (editing), Claire Auzias, Marie-Jo Dhavern ...

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Movies Starring Claire Atherton (2)

Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road (2024)

An analysis of the work of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (1950-2015), an experimental and innovative artist, both in content and form, who has left her mark on cultural memory and on the creations of other artists. ...

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I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (2015)

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 to New-York, this documentary charts the sites of her peregrinations. An experimental filmmaker, a nomad ...

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