Chantal Akerman

ActorDirectorCinematographerProducerSound Jun 6 (died age 65) Brussels, Belgium 1967–2024 (57 year career)

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Biography

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 acknowled…

Known For

Film

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Neighbor (voice) (uncredited)

Film

News from Home

Narrator (voice)

Film

Je Tu Il Elle

Julie

Film

The Meetings of Anna

Director

Film

Blow Up My Town

The girl

Film

No Home Movie

Self

Film

The Captive

Director

Film

Toute une nuit

Director

Filmography

Acting (58)

Movies (57)

Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road

2024

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

In Her Own Words

2024

as Self

Autour de La Folie Almayer

2022

as Self

Son chant

2021

as Self

Morceaux de Cannes

2021

2.0

Delphine and Carole

2020

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

Porto

2017

as (voice)

5.6

But Elsewhere Is Always Better

2016

as Self

My Name is Chantal Akerman

2016

as Self

No Home Movie

2016

as Self

6.5

On Belonging

2016

as Self

I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman

2015

as Self

6.7

What Lies Beneath the Sky

2015

as Narrator(voice)

What Is Cinema?

2013

as Self

6.5

Chantal Akerman

2013

as Self

My Mother Laughs Prelude

2012

as Self

Guest

2011

as Self

6.0

Chantal Akerman, From Here

2010

as Self

5.7

Sodankylä Forever

2010

as Self

The Art of Time

2009

as Self

Maniac Summer

2009

as Self

Interview with Babette Mangolte

2007

as Self

Interview with Aurore Clément

2007

as Self

Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman

2007

as Self

Down There

2006

as Self (voice)

5.4

Making of Tomorrow We Move

2004

as self

From the Other Side

2003

as Self (Narrator - Interviewer)

6.9

Birth of a Nation

1997

as Self

6.3

Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman

as Self

The Day When...

as Self

Pictures of Europe

as Self

The Ministries of Art

1989

as Self

6.3

One Day Pina Asked...

1989

as Self (uncredited)

5.6

Calling the Shots

1988

as Self

L'inhumaine

1987

as -

Mallet-Stevens Street

1986

6.5

Seven Women, Seven Sins

1986

as Film Director (segment Portrait d'une Paresseuse)

5.3

Portrait of a Lazy Woman

1986

6.1

She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps

Family Business

as Self

Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman

1984

as Self

7.5

De droomproducenten

1984

as Self

The Man with the Suitcase

as The Woman

Tell Me

as Self

News from Home

as Narrator (voice)

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

1976

as Neighbor (voice) (uncredited)

7.4

Chantal Akerman: An Interview

1976

as Chantal Akerman

Autour de Jeanne Dielman

as Self

Je Tu Il Elle

as Julie

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

The Chamber

as Self - On her bed

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

1971

as Herself (uncredited)

Untitled

Blow Up My Town

as The girl

Knokke: une petite fiction 2

1967

as Self

5.5

Examen d'entrée INSAS

1967

Lettre de cinéaste : Chantal Akerman

as Herself

Television (1)

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

as Self

6.0

Crew (113)

Movies (111)

No Home Movie

2016

Director

6.5

No Home Movie

2016

Director of Photography

No Home Movie

Producer

No Home Movie

Sound

No Home Movie

Writer

Now

Director

Almayer's Folly

Director

Almayer's Folly

Producer

Almayer's Folly

Writer

My Mother Laughs Prelude

2012

Director

On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici!

2010

Co-Director

Les variations Dielman

2010

Thanks

East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton

2009

Director

7.0

Maniac Summer

2009

Cinematography

Maniac Summer

2009

Director

Maniac Summer

2009

Editor

Nightfall in Shanghai

2007

Director

8.0

The State of the World

2007

Director

5.3

The State of the World

2007

Director of Photography

5.3

Interview with Babette Mangolte

2007

Director

Interview with Aurore Clément

2007

Director

Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman

2007

Director

Down There

Cinematography

Down There

Director

Down There

Writer

Making of Tomorrow We Move

2004

Director

Tomorrow We Move

Director

Tomorrow We Move

Writer

From the Other Side

Director

From the Other Side

Director of Photography

6.9

From the Other Side

2003

Writer

6.9

With Sonia Wieder-Atherton

2003

Director

7.0

No Vladimir

2000

Supervising Producer

The Captive

Director

The Captive

Writer

South

Director

South

Writer

Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman

Director

The Day When...

Director

The Day When...

Writer

A Couch in New York

Dialogue

A Couch in New York

Director

A Couch in New York

Screenplay

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

1994

Director

6.7

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

Writer

From the East

Director

From the East

Writer

Moving In

Director

Moving In

Writer

For Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador

Director

Against Oblivion

Director

Night and Day

Director

Night and Day

Writer

American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy

1989

Director

5.4

One Day Pina Asked...

1989

Director

5.6

Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas

1989

Director

7.0

Three Stanzas on the Name of Sacher

1989

Director

7.5

Mallet-Stevens Street

1986

Director

6.5

Mallet-Stevens Street

1986

Writer

6.5

Seven Women, Seven Sins

1986

Director

5.3

Seven Women, Seven Sins

Writer

Golden Eighties

Director

Golden Eighties

Writer

Portrait of a Lazy Woman

1986

Director

6.1

Portrait of a Lazy Woman

Writer

Letters Home

Director

The Hammer

Director

The Eighties

Director

The Eighties

Writer

Family Business

Director

Family Business

Writer

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After

1984

Director

4.2

Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman

Director

I'm Hungry, I'm Cold

Director

The Man with the Suitcase

1983

Director

6.2

The Man with the Suitcase

Writer

Toute une nuit

Director

Toute une nuit

Screenplay

Hôtel des Acacias

Director

Tell Me

Director

The Meetings of Anna

Director

The Meetings of Anna

Writer

News from Home

Director

News from Home

Writer

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

1976

Director

7.4

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

1976

Writer

7.4

Autour de Jeanne Dielman

Editor

Je Tu Il Elle

Director

Je Tu Il Elle

Producer

Je Tu Il Elle

Writer

Le 15/8

Director

Le 15/8

Writer

Hotel Monterey

Director

Hotel Monterey

Producer

Hotel Monterey

Writer

Hanging Out Yonkers

Director

Hanging Out Yonkers

Writer

The Chamber

Director

The Chamber

Editor

The Chamber

Writer

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

1971

Director

6.6

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

1971

Producer

6.6

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

1971

Writer

6.6

Untitled

1970

Director

Blow Up My Town

1968

Director

6.3

Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn

1967

Director

6.0

Knokke: une petite fiction 2

1967

Director

5.5

Bruxelles: à la Foire du Midi

1967

Director

5.5

Knokke: une petite fiction

1967

Director

5.5

Examen d'entrée INSAS

1967

Director

Lettre de cinéaste : Chantal Akerman

Director

Television (2)

All the Boys and Girls of Their Time

1994

Director

4.0

Monologues

1993

Director