Chantal Akerman Movies

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

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...

Filmed as part of Akerman’s film school entrance exam, these raw and playful 8mm miniatures capture life at a Brussels fairground and the...

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...

Chantal Akerman reads a script detailing the woes that befell her on the day she thought about "The Future of Cinema". The camera continuously...

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

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...

Akerman spends a brief period on her own in an apartment by the sea in Tel Aviv. She films from the apartment and in her narration she talks about...

A new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with their first meeting in the early 1970s. Using her own footage of...

An unfinished Chantal Akerman film about the troubled youths and drug addicts going through rehabilitation in Yonkers. Myra Alfreds, who commissions...

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...

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...

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...

Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest of all pianists, plays and reflects on Franz Schubert’s last three piano sonatas. As he points out,...

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

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.

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

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...