
Chantal Akerman
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 acknowledged that her cinematic approach took inspiration from the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, as well as from filmmakers Michael Snow and Jean-Luc Godard.
Many directors have cited Akerman's directorial style as an influence on their work. Kelly Reichardt, Gus Van Sant, and Sofia Coppola have noted their exploration of filming in real time as a tribute to Akerman.
Acting (48 movies)

Blow Up My Town
1968

Seven Women, Seven Sins
1986

Je Tu Il Elle
1974

News from Home
1977

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
1976

The Room
1972

She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
1985

Pictures of Europe
1990

Chantal Akerman, From Here
2010

Guest
2011

Chantal Akerman: An Interview
1976

Knokke: une petite fiction 2
1967

Autour de La Folie Almayer
2022

Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman
1997

No Home Movie
2016

The Man with the Suitcase
1983

Porto
2017

I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
2015

Tell Me
1980

The Ministries of Art
1989

What Is Cinema?
2013

Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road
2024

The Day When...
1997

Family Business
1984

Making of Tomorrow We Move
2004

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

Autour de Jeanne Dielman
1975

Birth of a Nation
1997

Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman
1984

Down There
2006

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

But Elsewhere Is Always Better
2016

Maniac Summer
2009

Chantal Akerman
2013

Portrait of a Lazy Woman
1986

Mallet-Stevens Street
1986

Interview with Babette Mangolte
2007

Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman
2007

My Mother Laughs Prelude
2012

Delphine and Carole
2020

One Day Pina Asked...
1989

Sodankylä Forever
2010

The Art of Time
2009

Son chant
2020

Examen d'entrée INSAS
1967

From the Other Side
2003

Calling the Shots
1988

In Her Own Words
2024
Directing (62 movies)

Toute une nuit
1982

Golden Eighties
1986

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
1976

The Captive
2000

A Couch in New York
1996

Against Oblivion
1991

Blow Up My Town
1968

The Meetings of Anna
1978

Je Tu Il Elle
1974

From the Other Side
2003

From the East
1993

Almayer's Folly
2012

News from Home
1977

Tomorrow We Move
2004

Night and Day
1991

Hotel Monterey
1973

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

The Room
1972

The State of the World
2007

The Eighties
1985

Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman
1997

Chantal Akerman: Her First Look Behind the Camera
1967

The Hammer
1986

Le 15/8
1973

South
1999

Seven Women, Seven Sins
1986

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After
1984

One Day Pina Asked...
1989

Down There
2006

American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy
1989

Three Stanzas on the Name of Sacher
1989

With Sonia Wieder-Atherton
2003

No Home Movie
2016

Knokke: une petite fiction
1967

Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn
1967

Knokke: une petite fiction 2
1967

Bruxelles: à la Foire du Midi
1967

The Man with the Suitcase
1983

Tell Me
1980

Letters Home
1986

Hôtel des Acacias
1982

Moving In
1993

Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas
1989

The Day When...
1997

Family Business
1984

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

I'm Hungry, I'm Cold
1984

For Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador
1991

Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman
1984

East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton
2009

Making of Tomorrow We Move
2004

Maniac Summer
2009

Portrait of a Lazy Woman
1986

Mallet-Stevens Street
1986

Nightfall in Shanghai
2007
Interview with Aurore Clément
2007

Interview with Babette Mangolte
2007

Interview with my mother, Natalia Akerman
2007

Hanging Out Yonkers
1973

My Mother Laughs Prelude
2012

Examen d'entrée INSAS
1967
Untitled
1970