Movies
- 2016

But Elsewhere Is Always Better
But Elsewhere Is Always Better02016HD
A new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with their first meeting in the early 1970s. Using her own footage of...
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- 1997

The Day When...
The Day When...7.31997HD
Chantal Akerman reads a script detailing the woes that befell her on the day she thought about "The Future of Cinema". The camera continuously...
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- 2009

Maniac Summer
Maniac Summer82009HD
Maniac Summer consists of images and sounds recorded in Paris in the summer of 2009. It is a sprawling triptych without a beginning or end and with...
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- 1973

Le 15/8
Le 15/85.61973HD
Mid-August in Paris (the title is a date: August 15) in a sunny, quiet apartment a young woman talks, thinks, reflects about herself, everyday life...
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- 1982

Toute une nuit
Toute une nuit6.61982HD
Following over two dozen different individuals in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, acceptance and rejection in the...
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- 1985

She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps7.31985HD
A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined, and the...
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- 1989

American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy
American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy5.81989HD
An exploration of Jewish American identity in a multilayered portrait of the immigrant experience. A series of first-person addresses delivered by a...
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- 1974

‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen7.81974HD
Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.
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- 2022

Autour de La Folie Almayer
Autour de La Folie Almayer02022HD
An in-depth, behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Chantal Akerman's 2011 film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's book about a merchant, whose...
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- 1973

Hanging Out Yonkers
Hanging Out Yonkers61973HD
An unfinished Chantal Akerman film about the troubled youths and drug addicts going through rehabilitation in Yonkers. Myra Alfreds, who commissions...
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- 2012

My Mother Laughs Prelude
My Mother Laughs Prelude82012HD
“My mother laughs prelude” is a performance from the book that Chantal made about her mother. In 2013, Akerman’s mother was dying....
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- 1987

L'inhumaine
L'inhumaine01987HD
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- 1984

Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman
Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman6.81984HD
A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a...
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- 1989

The Ministries of Art
The Ministries of Art7.21989HD
Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André...
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- 2007

The State of the World
The State of the World5.32007HD
Six directors, six independent films, six visions on the state of the world. Each carrying a unique and personal interpretation of a specific...
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- 2007

Interview with Babette Mangolte
Interview with Babette Mangolte82007HD
"To begin with, we have Babette Mangolte, the camera technician on Hotel Monterey, La Chambre and Jeanne Dielman, but who for me also symbolises the...
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- 1975

Around Jeanne Dielman
Around Jeanne Dielman61975HD
During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film about a film in the making.
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- 1967

Knokke: Une petite fiction
Knokke: Une petite fiction5.21967HD
A 2nd short super 8 film made by Chantal Akerman in Knokke to be used to be accepted at INSAS.
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- 1989

One Day Pina Asked...
One Day Pina Asked...6.11989HD
Chantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The Tanzteater Wuppertal, for five weeks while they were on...
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- 2010

On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici!
On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici!02010HD
Call for the regularization by the French government of all undocumented workers living in the country, a short film co-directed by 320 filmmakers...
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