Movies: Chantal Akerman

  • 1994
    Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels

    Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels (1994)

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

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    The main character, Michele, spends the hour discussing her views of life with some old and new friends, and tries to understand her own feelings about her place in the world and her sexuality, while a camera follows along at close range....

    Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels
  • 2010
    On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici!

    On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici! (2010)

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

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    Call for the regularization by the French government of all undocumented workers living in the country, a short film co-directed by 320 filmmakers and directors, producers, distributors and cinema owners....

    On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici!
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation (1997)

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1974
    ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen

    ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974)

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

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    Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image....

    ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
  • 1985
    She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps

    She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985)

    She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps

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    A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined, and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film in-production, as the birth of a chil...

    She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
  • 2007
    The State of the World

    The State of the World (2007)

    The State of the World

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    An omnibus project examining, well, the state of the world....

    The State of the World
  • 2016
    No Home Movie

    No Home Movie (2016)

    No Home Movie

    6.72016HD

    Documentary about humans dealing with changing technology, the basic concepts of communication, cinema, and Akerman's mother, seen in her Brussels apartment....

    No Home Movie
  • 1986
    Mallet-Stevens Street

    Mallet-Stevens Street (1986)

    Mallet-Stevens Street

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    Commissioned for the centenary of the famous French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens and shot on the street that bears his name in Paris' 16th arrondissement, Rue Mallet-Stevens depicts a mysterious, nocturnal scene of romance (featuring ...

    Mallet-Stevens Street
  • 1983
    The Man with the Suitcase

    The Man with the Suitcase (1983)

    The Man with the Suitcase

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    A sensitivity to sounds coming from the activities of an unwelcome guest in the close quarters of an apartment is only one important component in this atmospheric, avant-garde drollery by Chantal Akerman. When the apartment owner comes home, her gues...

    The Man with the Suitcase
  • 1991
    Night and Day

    Night and Day (1991)

    Night and Day

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    Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day Julie meets Joseph, the daytime driver of the taxi, and soon Julie is spending her nights with Josep...

    Night and Day
  • 1984
    Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman

    Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman (1984)

    Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman

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    A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a glamorous counterpart to Akerman who sports a drawn-on moustache. What is cinema for? Who is it for? If the Mosaic proh...

    Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman
  • 2012
    Almayer's Folly

    Almayer's Folly (2012)

    Almayer's Folly

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    A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice....

    Almayer's Folly
  • 1971
    The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman

    The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman (1971)

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

    6.51971HD

    A young mother, alone with her daughter, confides in a friend who happens to be the director herself. Chantal Akerman, although she sympathizes with the mother, does not say a word....

    The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman
  • 1986
    Portrait of a Lazy Woman

    Portrait of a Lazy Woman (1986)

    Portrait of a Lazy Woman

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    Belgian director Chantal Akerman struggles to overcome her laziness in the name of making a film about the subject....

    Portrait of a Lazy Woman
  • 2024
    Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road

    Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road (2024)

    Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road

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    An analysis of the work of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (1950-2015), an experimental and innovative artist, both in content and form, who has left her mark on cultural memory and on the creations of other artists....

    Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road
  • 2009
    East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton

    East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton (2009)

    East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton

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    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 Russia. Some weren't originally written for cello, but she had them transcribed. Some were songs for v...

    East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton
  • 1993
    From the East

    From the East (1993)

    From the East

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    Scenes of life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc....

    From the East
  • 1993
    Moving In

    Moving In (1993)

    Moving In

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    "A man stands amid unpacked boxes in his new home, delivering an extended monologue on indecision and dislocation. This rarely seen, overlooked gem created by Akerman for television explores the quotidian crises and profound feelings of alienation th...

    Moving In
  • 1984
    I'm Hungry, I'm Cold

    I'm Hungry, I'm Cold (1984)

    I'm Hungry, I'm Cold

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    Two girls come to Paris for the first time and try to live....

    I'm Hungry, I'm Cold
  • 1985
    The Eighties

    The Eighties (1985)

    The Eighties

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    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 mall where people audition for an upcoming show. Afterwards, they are seen going through the grueling ro...

    The Eighties