Person Detail
Chantal Akerman
Catalogued films 52Director 39Actor 26
Chantal Anne Akerman (French: [ʃɑ̃tal akɛʁman]; 6 June 1950 – 5 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for films such as Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), News from Home (1977), and Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978); the former was ranked the greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound magazine's 2022 "Top 100 Greatest Films" critics poll. According to film scholar Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Akerman's influence on feminist and avant-garde cinema is substantial.
Filmography
Titles and credit roles
Director credits
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No Home Movie
Almayer's Folly
The State of the World
Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman
Down There
Tomorrow We Move
From the Other Side
The Captive
South
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman
A Couch in New York
Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels
From the East
Moving In
Night and Day
Lest We Forget
One Day Pina Asked...
Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas
American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy
Golden Eighties
Portrait of a Lazy Woman
Letters Home
The Hammer
Seven Women, Seven Sins
Family Business
Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman
I'm Hungry, I'm Cold
Paris Seen By... 20 Years After
The Eighties
Toute une nuit
The Meetings of Anna
News from Home
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Je Tu Il Elle
Saute ma ville
Examen d'entrée INSAS
Knokke: Une petite fiction 2- Knokke: Une petite fiction
- Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn
Actor credits
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Morceaux de Cannes
Delphine and Carole
Son Chant
I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
What Is Cinema?
Guest
Chantal Akerman, From Here
Pictures of Europe
She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
Birth of a Nation
Autour de Jeanne Dielman
'Rameau's Nephew' by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974)
