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Chantal Akerman. Director: The Meetings of Anna. Chantal Akerman was born on 6 June 1950 in Brussels, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for The Meetings of Anna (1978), Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) and I, You, He, She (1974).
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1968–2015. Notable work. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Je Tu Il Elle, Les Rendez-vous d'Anna, News from Home. 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.
- 1968–2015
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- Saute ma ville (1968) In her blackly comic debut, Akerman plays a ‘Chaplinesque’ loner, shuffling through domestic mishaps in a fugue state. Just as an unhinged camera disrupts the spatial order of her kitchen, the increasingly frantic girl destroys a quotidian arsenal of objects – pots, pans, mops – which have shackled her gender for generations.
- Je, tu, il, elle (1974) The commas in the title suggest corporeal and spatial displacement, and this becomes the subject of Akerman’s narrative triptych.
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) Cinematographer Babette Mangolte described Jeanne Dielman as “a 40s story shot by a 70s camera,” and critic Manny Farber elaborated upon the camera’s subject, “space… as it becomes spiritualised and proliferates ideas”.
- News from Home (1976) Akerman regularly incorporates letters into narrative, but News from Home, and the massively underseen Letters Home (1986), are her only epistolary films.
Jul 3, 2021 · Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) emerged as a filmmaker of the American avantgarde in the 1970’s working in the structural school that saw Michael Snow’s 45-minute long zoom Wavelength and Andy Warhol’s 7-hour static shot of the Empire State Building making the rounds at art galleries and cinemas, but would go on to redefine herself in a career spanning genres and forms, breaking into both ...
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Akerman was only 25 when she made Jeanne Dielman, an impressive feat considering it was financed through a grant she had received from the Belgian government.
- News From Home. News From Home came out in 1977, but its themes and messages are still relevant even today. At the time of filming the documentary, Akerman was living abroad in New York City, which looks similar but also completely different from what it is today.
- Toute Une Nuit. 1982’s Toute Une Nuit is symbolic of the kind of work Akerman did throughout her career, although it has not gotten much attention outside of the film community.
- No Home Movie. The final film she made before she died, No Home Movie is a testament to the relationship she had with her mother. This is a theme she has explored in her other works, as Akerman was known to have very good relationship with her mother.
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Nov 2, 2018 · Chantal Akerman’s drama – with the lengthy title Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels – premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 1975, the same year Martin Scorsese ...
Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978. In the revolutionary first decade of her filmmaking career, Chantal Akerman devoted herself to nothing less than the total resculpting of cinematic time and space. Journeying between Europe and New York City, Akerman forged a highly personal style that fuses avant-garde influences with deeply human ...
