Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman was a Belgian filmmaker born in 1950 in Brussels and passed away in 2015 in Paris. Her portrayal of female universes and characters offered a new perspective on women in cinema at the dawn of the 1970s. Considered one of the leading figures of modern cinema, she established a distinctive signature characterized by long takes and real-time filming. This unique approach influenced an entire generation of filmmakers. A highly eclectic artist, she worked in both fiction and documentary, also creating installations and even a musical. Among her notable documentaries are News from Home (1977), Sud (1999), De l'autre côté (2002), and No Home Movie (2015).
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Dis-moi
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Echoing her own mother's voice recounting her relationships with her mother and grandmother, filmmaker Chantal Akerman visits three elderly Jewish women and asks them to speak about their ancestors. Seated in their living rooms and filmed in static shots, these grandmothers share their memories, the life of Jewish communities before the war, the Holocaust, and the efforts to survive the horror....
News From Home
Chantal Akerman’s unforgettable time capsule of New York City in the 1970s is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection
No Home Movie
« Parce que ce film est avant tout un film sur ma mère, ma mère qui n'est plus. Sur cette femme arrivée en Belgique en 1938 fuyant la Pologne, les pogroms et les exactions. Cette femme qu'on ne voit que dans son appartement. Un appartement à Bruxelles. Un film sur le monde qui bouge et que ma mère ne voit pas. »
From the Other Side
In the United States, poor people are, for the most part, Mexican. For years, they crossed through San Diego, but the US Immigration Services has managed to stop the flood of illegal immigrants in this part of California and divert it to the deserts and mountains of Arizona where they thought the difficulties, dangers, cold and heat would stop them. But you can’t stop someone who’s hungry. And...
South
Based on the lynching of a black man by three white men, Sud depicts a Texas nostalgic for the slavery of its past. Alternating still frames and long tracking shots, Akerman reconstitutes the terrible event that took place in Jasper in June 1998. A black man was chained behind a truck and dragged for miles down a road by three young white men. The victim was a musician. The criminals belonged t...
One Day Pina Asked
Pendant cinq semaines, Chantal Akerman a suivi Pina Bausch et ses danseurs du Tanztheater Wuppertal lors d'une tournée européenne. Au travers des scènes extraites des spectacles, des séquences de répétition et de préparation, la réalisatrice a cherché à évoquer par l'image l'univers artistique et imaginaire de la chorégraphe allemande. Akerman y intègre de brèves entrevues des danseurs qui comm...
Dis-moi
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Echoing her own mother's voice recounting her relationships with her mother and grandmother, filmmaker Chantal Akerman visits three elderly Jewish women and asks them to speak about their ancestors. Seated in their living rooms and filmed in static shots, these grandmothers share their memories, the life of Jewish communities before the war, the Holocaust, and the efforts to survive the horror....
News From Home
Chantal Akerman’s unforgettable time capsule of New York City in the 1970s is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection
No Home Movie
« Parce que ce film est avant tout un film sur ma mère, ma mère qui n'est plus. Sur cette femme arrivée en Belgique en 1938 fuyant la Pologne, les pogroms et les exactions. Cette femme qu'on ne voit que dans son appartement. Un appartement à Bruxelles. Un film sur le monde qui bouge et que ma mère ne voit pas. »
From the Other Side
In the United States, poor people are, for the most part, Mexican. For years, they crossed through San Diego, but the US Immigration Services has managed to stop the flood of illegal immigrants in this part of California and divert it to the deserts and mountains of Arizona where they thought the difficulties, dangers, cold and heat would stop them. But you can’t stop someone who’s hungry. And...
South
Based on the lynching of a black man by three white men, Sud depicts a Texas nostalgic for the slavery of its past. Alternating still frames and long tracking shots, Akerman reconstitutes the terrible event that took place in Jasper in June 1998. A black man was chained behind a truck and dragged for miles down a road by three young white men. The victim was a musician. The criminals belonged t...
One Day Pina Asked
Pendant cinq semaines, Chantal Akerman a suivi Pina Bausch et ses danseurs du Tanztheater Wuppertal lors d'une tournée européenne. Au travers des scènes extraites des spectacles, des séquences de répétition et de préparation, la réalisatrice a cherché à évoquer par l'image l'univers artistique et imaginaire de la chorégraphe allemande. Akerman y intègre de brèves entrevues des danseurs qui comm...
