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. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Akerman is best known for her films Je Tu Il Elle (1974), Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), and News from Home (1976).

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.

Oct 6, 2015 · Chantal Akerman was forcing men to look at a woman who could have been any of their wives or mothers, for over three hours. To reckon with female identity and existence, that it is intrinsically, starkly different from the male, and that so much of …

Oct 7, 2015 · Born in Brussels on June 6, 1950, Akerman made her first short film, “Blow Up My Town,” in 1968 when she was 18. As a teenager she was moved by the work of Jean-Luc Godard and only briefly ...

Oct 6, 2015 · The Belgian-born, Paris-based director Chantal Akerman died on October 5th, at the age of sixty-five. According to Isabelle Regnier, of Le Monde, she committed suicide. Neither Akerman’s name...

Chantal Akerman was born on 6 June 1950 in Brussels, Belgium. She was a director and writer, known for I, You, He, She (1974), Meetings with Anna (1978) and Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975).

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.

Mar 8, 2024 · Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman was one of the defining feminist voices cinema has ever seen, known for movies like 'Jeanne Dielman' and 'News From Home'.

Oct 7, 2015 · PARIS — Chantal Akerman, the Belgian director whose ruminative, meticulous observation of women’s inner lives, often using long takes, made her a pioneer in feminist and experimental ...

Mar 24, 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 ...