Chantal Akerman Movies

"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". –...

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...

Found footage using Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman.

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

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...

“My mother laughs prelude” is a performance from the book that Chantal made about her mother. In 2013, Akerman’s mother was dying....

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

Tombée de nuit sur Shanghaï is Akerman’s contribution to the collective film L’état du monde (2007). Consists of...

Chantal Akerman produced NOW for the Venice Biennale in 2015, shortly before her death. Presented on multiple large screens, this seven-channel video...

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...

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