Chantal Akerman – MRQE

Cinéma, de notre temps:: Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman (TVE)

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Janine Bazin and André Labarthe approached Chantal Akerman about making a film for the series; eagerly, Akerman proposed a number of filmmakersbut all had already been done. So she suggestedHow about me? Akerman creates a fascinating self-portrait that takes us through her career, aided by critics Emmanuel Burdeau and Jean Narboni and filmmaker Luc Moullet.

Delphine et Carole, insoumuses

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They documented the demonstrations of French feminists and used the new technologies to counter the poor representation of women in the public media.

Porto

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jake and Mati are two outsiders in the northerly Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a brief connection. A mystery remains about the moments they shared, and in searching through memories, they relive the depths of a night uninhibited by the consequences of time.

No Home Movie

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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

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

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000

I Dont Belong Anywhere – Le Cinéma de Chantal Akerman, explores some of the Belgian filmmakers 40 plus films. From Brussels to Tel-Aviv, from Paris to New-York, this documentary charts the sites of her peregrinations. An experimental filmmaker, a nomad, Chantal Akerman shares her cinematic trajectory, one that has never ceased to interrogate the the meaning of her existence. Thanks in great part to the interventions of her editor, Claire Atherton, she delineates the origins of her film language and her aesthetic stance.

Là-bas

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Akerman spends a brief period on her own in an apartment by the sea in Tel Aviv. She films from the apartment and in her narration she talks about her family, her Jewish identity and her childhood. She wonders whether normal everyday life is possible in this place and whether filming is a realistic option.

Elle a passé tant d’heures sous les sunlights…

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young film director is turning 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 on-production, as the birth of a child.

La Chambre

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still lifewith Akerman herself staring back. This breakthrough formal experiment is Akerman’s first film made in New York.

News from Home

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman’s loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away.

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.