Chantal Akerman

Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest of all pianists, plays and reflects on Franz Schubert’s last three piano sonatas. As he points out, Schubert ...

Belgian director Chantal Akerman avoids her usual “real time” technique in Histoires d’Amérique. The anecdotal nature of the ...

Chantal Akerman has toured Eastern Europe through Russia, Poland, the Ukraine filming everything that moved her : faces, streets, cars, buses, ...

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 ...

Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with ...

Janine Bazin and André Labarthe approached Chantal Akerman about making a film for the series; eagerly, Akerman proposed a number of ...

Chantal Akerman investigates the American Deep South through the story of a lynching and grisly murder of an African-American man that took place ...

Hotel Monterey is a cheap hotel in New York reserved for the outcasts of American society. Chantal Akerman invites viewers to visit this unusual ...

Furniture and clutter of one small apartment room become the subject of a moving still life—with Akerman herself staring back. This breakthrough ...

A young mother, alone with her daughter, confides in a friend who happens to be the director herself. Chantal Akerman, although she sympathizes ...

On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends ...

Arian lives in Simon’s large parisian appartment. He wants to know everything from her, follows her, has her accompanied for her trips and ...

A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional ...

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 ...