Chantal Akerman

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Les variations Dielman (2010)

Found footage using Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman. ...

On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici! (2010)

Call for the regularization by the French government of all undocumented workers living in the country, a short film co-directed by 320 filmmakers and directors, producers, distributors and cinema owners. ...

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 ...

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, ...

Women from Antwerp in November (2008)

Femmes d'Anvers en novembre is a dual projection piece rich in atmosphere and charm, filled with references to early French and American film noir – a deliberate homage, shot in close-up and medium close-up, to the smoking woman. The focus on the everyda ...

The State of the World (2007)

Six directors, six independent films, six visions on the state of the world. Each carrying a unique and personal interpretation of a specific experience, their crossover creates new space for a dynamic and radical inquisitive reflection. ...

Nightfall in Shanghai (2007)

Tombée de nuit sur Shanghaï is Akerman's contribution to the collective film L'état du monde (2007). Consists of little more than long-held vid shots of Shanghai skyscrapers and a floating boat, bearing giant video displays of consumer products and fami ...

Interview with Aurore Clément (2007)

"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". ...

Interview with Babette Mangolte (2007)

"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 New York years, she introduced me into the very core of what was new, even revolutionary, in New York, and ...

Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman (2007)

In this 2007 interview, an off-camera Chantal Akerman interviews her mother about her films. The producers of the interview originally intended to edit out Akerman's questions but ultimately decided to keep them in to preserve the candor of the mother-daug ...

Down There (2006)

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

Tomorrow We Move (2004)

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

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 ...

With Sonia Wieder-Atherton (2003)

The short documentary starts with Wieder-Atherton telling the story of how she came to fall in love; first with music in general, and then with the cello, and goes on tell how she found her specific style, using the music to try and almost form words of co ...

From the Other Side (2003)

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

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 ...

No Vladimir (2000)

Vladimir is an impeccably dressed student who wants to become a spy. In pursuit of this goal he learns all he can about espionage, learning codes and leaving secret messages for his college roommate (the narrator). Vladimir tries his best to become a real ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels (1994)

The main character, Michèle, spends the hour discussing her views of life with some old and new friends, and tries to understand her own feelings about her place in the world and her sexuality, while a camera follows along at close range. ...

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 ...

Moving In (1993)

"A man stands amid unpacked boxes in his new home, delivering an extended monologue on indecision and dislocation. This rarely seen, overlooked gem created by Akerman for television explores the quotidian crises and profound feelings of alienation that run ...

Lest We Forget (1991)

A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist w ...

Night and Day (1991)

Jack and Julie live in a bare Parisian flat. By day, they make love; by night, Jack is a taxi driver while Julie wanders the city. One day, Julie meets Joseph, the daytime cabbie, and soon Julie spends her nights with Joseph and her days with Jack. ...

For Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador (1991)

Commissioned by Amnesty International for its TV program Ecrire contre l'oubli (Write Against Oblivion), Akerman's contribution in the form of a poem is dedicated to Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, an El Salvadorian trade unionist and mother of three, murdered b ...

American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy (1989)

An exploration of Jewish American identity in a multilayered portrait of the immigrant experience. A series of first-person addresses delivered by a cross-section of Jewish New Yorkers, whose by turns tragic and humourous tales speak to a collective histor ...

One Day Pina Asked... (1989)

Chantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The Tanzteater Wuppertal, for five weeks while they were on tour in Germany, Italy and France. Her objective was to capture Pina Bausch's unparalleled art not only on sta ...

Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas (1989)

A portrait of pianist Alfred Brendel performing and analysing Franz Schubert's final three sonatas. ...

Three Stanzas on the Name of Sacher (1989)

Far from Standardised visual recording, Akerman and her accomplice, the cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton allows us to discover a fine moment of contemporary music. ...

Golden Eighties (1986)

In a lively shopping center, proprietors and customers are bustling, including three women vying for a man's heart with song and dance. ...

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986)

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amongst the world's most renown: Helke Sander (Gluttony), Bette Gordon (Greed), Maxi Cohen (Anger), Chantal Ak ...

Portrait of a Lazy Woman (1986)

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Hammer (1986)

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 instigates a game of musical chairs. The winner is then permitted to hurl the hammer out into the starry night. ...

The Eighties (1985)

All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny French outing. The story is set at a shopping mall where people audition for an upcoming show. Afterwards, they are seen going through the grueling routines ...

Family Business (1984)

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 plays the role of a director visiting Hollywood to find financing from an uncle she hardly knows. Very l ...

Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman (1984)

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 counterpart to Akerman who sports a drawn-on moustache. What is cinema for? Who is it for? If the Mosaic prohibiti ...

I'm Hungry, I'm Cold (1984)

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

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After (1984)

Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city. ...

The Man with the Suitcase (1983)

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 atmospheric, avant-garde drollery by Chantal Akerman. When the apartment owner comes home, her guest is s ...

Toute une nuit (1982)

Following over two dozen different individuals in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance is examined. ...

Hôtel des Acacias (1982)

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, everyone is looking for love. Hôtel des Acacias was an exercise guided in 1982 by Chantal Akerman at Belgium's IN ...

Tell Me (1980)

Chantal Akerman meets with elderly Jewish women in Paris, all of them survivors of the Shoah, and listens to their family stories. Between interviews, Akerman's mother Natalia speaks of her own family. Made for a French miniseries on grandmothers. ...

The Meetings of Anna (1978)

Detached filmmaker Anna Silver arrives in Germany to show her latest film; over the course of some days, she encounters a variety of new and old faces, some of whom make personal revelations to her to little affect. ...

News from Home (1977)

Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself. ...

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976)

A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon. ...

Autour de Jeanne Dielman (1975)

During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film about a film in the making. ...

Je Tu Il Elle (1974)

A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup. ...

Hotel Monterey (1973)

New York City's Monterey is a residence hotel, whose inhabitants are older and primarily live alone. The camera, usually stationery, observes the lobby. No score, the lobby is clean with granite floors, men wear hats, people enter and exit an elevator, the ...

Le 15/8 (1973)

Mid-August in Paris (the title is a date: August 15) in a sunny, quiet apartment a young woman talks, thinks, reflects about herself, everyday life and little events in a long, uninterrupted monologue. The camera pictures her and her gestures in long, fixe ...

Hanging Out Yonkers (1973)

An unfinished Chantal Akerman film about the troubled youths and drug addicts going through rehabilitation in Yonkers. Myra Alfreds, who commissions the film, accompanies Akerman and Mangolte on the film shoot in Yonkers, a city of nearly 200,000 inhabitan ...

The Chamber (1972)

Furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back. This breakthrough formal experiment is Akerman's first film made in New York. ...

The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman (1971)

A young mother, alone with her daughter, confides in a friend who happens to be the director herself. Chantal Akerman, although she sympathizes with the mother, does not say a word. ...

Saute ma ville (1968)

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 along. ...

Chantal Akerman: Her First Look Behind the Camera (1967)

Filmed as part of Akerman's film school entrance exam, these raw and playful 8mm miniatures capture life at a Brussels fairground and the courtyard of a hotel, alongside an oblique, two-part fiction set in the seaside shops of Knokke. ...

Bruxelles: à la Foire du Midi (1967)

The first film by Chantal Akerman, a short silent 8mm film shot during the Brussels summer Midi Fair, that was one of four short films she made as a short of entrance exam at INSAS were she studied for just a couple of months. ...

Knokke: une petite fiction (1967)

A 2nd short super 8 film made by Chantal Akerman in Knokke to be used to be accepted at INSAS. ...

Knokke: une petite fiction 2 (1967)

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. ...

Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn (1967)

A 4th short super 8 film made by Chantal Akerman with her friends in Brussels, shot in front of the former Hotel van Cleve-Ravenstein coincidentally the place where now CINEMATEK and the archives of the Chantel Akerman Fondation are residing. ...

Examen d'entrée INSAS (1967)

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 National Higher Institute of Performing Arts and Broadcasting Techniques (INSAS, Brussels) in September 1967, ...

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. ...

Autour de La Folie Almayer (2022)

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 dreams of riches for his daughter are shattered by his greed and prejudice. ...

Morceaux de Cannes (2021)

We thought we'd seen, read, and heard everything there was to see about the Cannes Film Festival, from the glitz and gossip to the scandals and censorship. And yet, Emmanuel Barnault's "Morceaux de Cannes" (Pieces of Cannes), by this leading expert on Ital ...

Son chant (2021)

"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 brasserie where we had dined together in Montparnasse. The excerpt stayed with me for a while. This prom ...

Delphine and Carole (2020)

In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They documented the demonstrations of French feminists and used the new technologies to counter the poor represent ...

Porto (2017)

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 they shared, and in searching through memories, they relive the depths of a night uninhibited by the cons ...

But Elsewhere Is Always Better (2016)

A new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with their first meeting in the early 1970s. Using her own footage of Chantal Akerman, the filmmaker remembers a few moments that illustrate Chantal's personality. Forty years of f ...

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 ...

My Name is Chantal Akerman (2016)

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 England. A project she ended up abandoning. ...

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 ...

What Lies Beneath the Sky (2015)

What Lies Beneath the Sky is a portrait of New York City hit by hurricane Sandy shot in Super 8. ...

Chantal Akerman (2013)

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

What Is Cinema? (2013)

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others d ...

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 ...

Guest (2011)

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 is a wonderfully humane and sincere portrayal of the people that he meets when he goes off the beaten tr ...

Chantal Akerman, From Here (2010)

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, rummage in his methods, and add words to silences, spoken images to seen images. It's always very instructive. A ...

Sodankylä Forever (2010)

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 Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has playe ...

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 ...

The Art of Time (2009)

Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter the uniform sense of time promoted by our technology-driven society. ...

Interview with Aurore Clément (2007)

"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". ...

Interview with Babette Mangolte (2007)

"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 New York years, she introduced me into the very core of what was new, even revolutionary, in New York, and ...

Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman (2007)

In this 2007 interview, an off-camera Chantal Akerman interviews her mother about her films. The producers of the interview originally intended to edit out Akerman's questions but ultimately decided to keep them in to preserve the candor of the mother-daug ...

Down There (2006)

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

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 ...

From the Other Side (2003)

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

Birth of a Nation (1997)

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own "nation of cinema," a vital ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pictures of Europe (1990)

What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce's feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between American independent and Hollywood movies and films from European directors. ...

One Day Pina Asked... (1989)

Chantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The Tanzteater Wuppertal, for five weeks while they were on tour in Germany, Italy and France. Her objective was to capture Pina Bausch's unparalleled art not only on sta ...

The Ministries of Art (1989)

Philippe Garrel's documentary on France's second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot. ...

Calling the Shots (1988)

Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts. ...

L'inhumaine (1987)

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986)

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amongst the world's most renown: Helke Sander (Gluttony), Bette Gordon (Greed), Maxi Cohen (Anger), Chantal Ak ...

Portrait of a Lazy Woman (1986)

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

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 ...

She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985)

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 film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film in-production, as the birth of a child. ...

Family Business (1984)

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 plays the role of a director visiting Hollywood to find financing from an uncle she hardly knows. Very l ...

Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman (1984)

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 counterpart to Akerman who sports a drawn-on moustache. What is cinema for? Who is it for? If the Mosaic prohibiti ...

De droomproducenten (1984)

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

The Man with the Suitcase (1983)

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 atmospheric, avant-garde drollery by Chantal Akerman. When the apartment owner comes home, her guest is s ...

Tell Me (1980)

Chantal Akerman meets with elderly Jewish women in Paris, all of them survivors of the Shoah, and listens to their family stories. Between interviews, Akerman's mother Natalia speaks of her own family. Made for a French miniseries on grandmothers. ...

News from Home (1977)

Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself. ...

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976)

A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon. ...

Chantal Akerman: An Interview (1976)

Autour de Jeanne Dielman (1975)

During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film about a film in the making. ...

Je Tu Il Elle (1974)

A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup. ...

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974)

Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image. ...

The Chamber (1972)

Furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back. This breakthrough formal experiment is Akerman's first film made in New York. ...

The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman (1971)

A young mother, alone with her daughter, confides in a friend who happens to be the director herself. Chantal Akerman, although she sympathizes with the mother, does not say a word. ...

Saute ma ville (1968)

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 along. ...

Knokke: une petite fiction 2 (1967)

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. ...

Examen d'entrée INSAS (1967)

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 National Higher Institute of Performing Arts and Broadcasting Techniques (INSAS, Brussels) in September 1967, ...