Chantal Akerman
Chantal Anne Akerman (June 6, 1950 – October 5, 2015) was a Belgian film director, artist and professor of film at the City College of New York. Her best-known film is Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). Despite being categorised as such by others, Akerman frequently distanced herself from the feminist label, explaining, "when people say there is a feminist film language, it is like saying there is only one way for women to express themselves". Instead, Akerman acknowledged that her cinematic approach took inspiration from the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, as well as from filmmakers Michael Snow and Jean-Luc Godard. Many directors have cited Akerman's directorial style as an influence on their work. Kelly Reichardt, Gus Van Sant, and Sofia Coppola have noted their exploration of filming in real time as a tribute to Akerman.
64 directing credits · 57 acting credits
Directing · 64
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
1976
All the Boys and Girls of Their Time
1994
A Couch in New York
1996
Je Tu Il Elle
1974
The Captive
2000
Golden Eighties
1986
Toute une nuit
1982
News from Home
1977
The Meetings of Anna
1978
Lest We Forget
1991
Seven Women, Seven Sins
1986
Monologues
1993
Almayer's Folly
2012
Hotel Monterey
1973
Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels
1994
Letters Home
1986
American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy
1989
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman
1997
Tomorrow We Move
2004
Paris Seen By... 20 Years After
1984
With Sonia Wieder-Atherton
2003
Portrait of a Lazy Woman
1986
East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton
2009
The Man with the Suitcase
1983
The State of the World
2007
From the East
1993
One Day Pina Asked...
1989
Hanging Out Yonkers
1973
Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman
1984
La chambre
1972
Saute ma ville
1968
Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas
1989
Three Stanzas on the Name of Sacher
1989
Moving In
1993
Bruxelles: à la Foire du Midi
1967
No Home Movie
2016
Night and Day
1991
The Day When...
1997
The Eighties
1985
I'm Hungry, I'm Cold
1984
For Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador
1991
Tell Me
1980
Nightfall in Shanghai
2007
The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman
1971
Making of Tomorrow We Move
2004
Family Business
1984
Hôtel des Acacias
1982
South
1999
The Hammer
1986
Interview with Babette Mangolte
2007
Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman
2007
Now
2015
Mallet-Stevens Street
1986
Down There
2006
Knokke: une petite fiction 2
1967
From the Other Side
2003
Maniac Summer
2009
Interview with Aurore Clément
2007
My Mother Laughs Prelude
2012
Knokke: une petite fiction
1967
Examen d'entrée INSAS
1967
Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn
1967
Untitled
1970
Le 15/8
1973
Acting · 57
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
1976
Sodankylä Forever
2010
Je Tu Il Elle
1974
News from Home
1977
Morceaux de Cannes
2021
What Is Cinema?
2013
Seven Women, Seven Sins
1986
Pictures of Europe
1990
Delphine and Carole
2020
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
1974
Porto
2017
Guest
2011
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman
1997
Son chant
2021
De droomproducenten
1984
Calling the Shots
1988
Birth of a Nation
1997
Portrait of a Lazy Woman
1986
Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road
2024
She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
1985
The Art of Time
2009
I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
2015
The Man with the Suitcase
1983
One Day Pina Asked...
1989
Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman
1984
La chambre
1972
Saute ma ville
1968
No Home Movie
2016
The Ministries of Art
1989
But Elsewhere Is Always Better
2016
Chantal Akerman
2013
The Day When...
1997
Tell Me
1980
Autour de La Folie Almayer
2022
The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman
1971
Autour de Jeanne Dielman
1975
Making of Tomorrow We Move
2004
Family Business
1984
Interview with Babette Mangolte
2007
Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman
2007
Chantal Akerman, From Here
2010
Mallet-Stevens Street
1986
Chantal Akerman: An Interview
1976
What Lies Beneath the Sky
2015
Down There
2006
Knokke: une petite fiction 2
1967
From the Other Side
2003
Maniac Summer
2009
Interview with Aurore Clément
2007
My Mother Laughs Prelude
2012
My Name is Chantal Akerman
2016
In Her Own Words
2024
Examen d'entrée INSAS
1967
L'inhumaine
1987
On Belonging
2016
Untitled
1970