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Chantal Anne Akerman ( French: [ʃɑ̃tal akɛʁman]; 6 June 1950 – 5 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York.
Chantal Akerman was born on 6 June 1950 in Brussels, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for I, You, He, She (1974), The Meetings of Anna (1978) and Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975).
Jun 2, 2024 · Chantal Akerman (born June 6, 1950, Brussels, Belgium—died October 5, 2015, Paris, France) was a Belgian filmmaker who explored the mundane details of ordinary life with a clear eye and a strong feminist sensibility. She directed over 40 films and created several art installations.
In the revolutionary first decade of her filmmaking career, Chantal Akerman devoted herself to nothing less than the total resculpting of cinematic time and space.
Chantal Akerman’s cinematographic, literary and art works created before or after Jeanne Dielman remain among the most influential to numberless artists and the most inspiring to audiences across the world.
Nov 2, 2018 · Two hundred and one minutes long, Akerman’s domestic epic is not as extreme as Andy Warhol’s previous durational cinema, but its narrative subject and structure were radical in forcing viewers...
Mar 25, 2016 · Like Orson Welles, the Belgian director Chantal Akerman revolutionized the cinema with a movie that she made in her mid-twenties—“Jeanne Dielman,” from 1975—and then made even more ...
