Chantal Akerman Biography (1950-)

Full name, Chantal Anne Akerman; born June 6, 1950, in Brussels, Belgium. Addresses: Contact: c/o Paradise Films, 29 rue de la Sablonniere, B-1000Brussels, Belgium.

Nationality: Belgian
Gender: Female
Occupation: Director, writer, producer, actress
Birth Details: June 6, 1950; Brussels, Belgium

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Director
Saute ma ville (short film; also known as Blow Up My Town),World Artists, 1968
L'enfant aime ou je joue a etre une femme mariee (also known as The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman), 1971
Hotel Monterey, World Artists,1972.
La chambre, World Artists, 1972
(With others) Le 15/18, 1973
Hanging Out--Yonkers, 1974
Je, tu, il, elle (also known as I, You, She, He), World Artists, 1974
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Paradise Films, 1975
News from Home, World Artists, 1976
Les rendez-vous d'Anna (also known as The Meetings of Annaand De Afspraken van Anna), World Artists, 1979
Toute une nuit (also known as All Night Long), World Artists, 1982
Les annees 80 (also known as The Eighties), World Artists,1983
Pina Bausch, Institut National de la Communication, 1983
"J'ai faim, j'ai froid," Paris vu par ... vingt ans apres (also known as Paris Seen By ... 20 Years After), 1984
New York, New York bis (short film), 1984
Window Shopping (also known as The Eighties and Golden Eighties), World Artists, 1986
Le marteau (short film; also known as The Hammer), 1986
Mallet-Stevens, 1986
Letters Home, 1986
La paresse (also known as Sloth and Portrait d'une paresseuse), 1986
"Sloth," Seven Women, Seven Sins, ASA Communications, 1987
Histoires d'Amerique (also known as American Stories, Food, Family and Philosophy and Food, Family, and Philosophy), Paradise Films/The French Ministry of Culture/The Belgian Ministry of French Culture, 1988
Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher (also known as Three Stanzas on the Name Sacher), 1989
Le trois dernieres sonates de Franz Schubert (short film; also known as Franz Schubert's Last Three Sonatas), 1989
Night and Day (also known as Nuit et jour), International Film Circuit, 1991
(With others) Contre l'oubli (also known as Against Oblivion, Lest We Forget, and Ecrire contre l'oubli), Les Films du Paradoxe/Amnesty International, 1992
D'est (also known as From the East), Paradise Films/LieuracProductions, 1993
A Couch in New York (also know as Ein Couch in New York andUn divan a New York), Northern Arts Entertainment, 1995
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (documentary), 1996
Sud (documentary; also known as South), Paradise Films, 1999
La captive (also known as The Captive), Artificial Eye, 2000
(And cinematographer) De l'autre cote (documentary; also known asFrom the Other Side), AMIP/Arte France Cinema, 2001
Film Producer
Je, tu, il, elle (also known as I, You, She, He), World Artists, 1974
A Couch in New York (also know as Ein Couch in New York andUn divan a New York), Northern Arts Entertainment, 1995
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (documentary), 1996
Film Work
Other

Supervising producer and director, Fifty Fifty, 1998
(As Chantal Ackerman) Supervising producer, No Vladimir, 2000
Film Appearances
Saute ma ville (short film; also known as Blow Up My Town),World Artists, 1968
Le 15/8, 1973
Julie, Je, tu, il, elle (also known as I, You, She, He), World Artists, 1974
Voice of neighbor, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Paradise Films, 1975
Narrator, News from Home, World Artists, 1977
5% de risque, 1980
Elle a passe tant d'heures sous les sunlights, 1985
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (documentary), 1996
Television Director
Episodic
"Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des annees 60 a Bruxelles" (also known as "Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 1960s in Brussels"), Tous les garcons et les filles de leur age..., 1994
Other
Dis-moi (movie; also known as Tell Me), 1980
Un jour Pina m'a demande (also known as One Day Pina Asked Me and On Tour with Pina Bausch), 1983
L'homme a la valise (also known as The Man with the Suitcase), 1984
Lettre d'un cineaste (also known as Letter from a Filmmaker), 1984
J'ai faim, j'ai froid (also known as I'm Hungry, I'm Cold),1984
Family Business: Chantal Akerman Speaks about Film, 1984
Le demenagement (also known as Moving In), 1992
Television Appearances
Episodic
Conversations in World Cinema, Sundance Channel, 2000
Other
Woman returning, L'homme a la valise (also known as The Man with the Suitcase), 1984
Les ministeres de l'art, 1988
WRITINGS
Screenplays
Hotel Monterey, World Artists,1972.
La chambre, World Artists, 1972
Le 15/8, 1973
Je, tu, il, elles (also known as I, You, She, He), World Artists, 1974
(With Marilyne Watelet) Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Paradise Films, 1975
News from Home, World Artists, 1976
Les rendez-vous d'Anna (also known as The Meetings of Annaand De Afspraken van Anna), World Artists, 1979
Toute une nuit (also known as All Night Long), World Artists, 1982
(With Jean Gruault; and lyricist) Les annees 80 (also known as The Eighties), World Artists, 1983
"J'ai faim, j'ai froid," Paris vu par ... vingt ans apres (also known as Paris Seen By ... 20 Years After), 1984
(And composer and lyricist) Window Shopping (also known as TheEighties and Golden Eighties), World Artists, 1986
"Sloth," Seven Women, Seven Sins, ASA Communications, 1987
Histoires d'Amerique (also known as American Stories, Food, Family and Philosophy and Food, Family, and Philosophy), Paradise Films/The French Ministry of Culture/The Belgian Ministry of French Culture, 1988
Night and Day (also known as Nuit et jour), International Film Circuit, 1991
D'est (also known as From the East), Paradise Films/LieuracProductions, 1993
A Couch in New York (also know as Ein Couch in New York andUn divan a New York), Northern Arts Entertainment, 1995
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (documentary), 1996
Sud (documentary; also known as South), Paradise Films, 1999
La captive (also known as The Captive), Artificial Eye, 2000
De l'autre cote (documentary; also known as From the Other Side), AMIP/Arte France Cinema, 2001
Television Episodes
"Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des annees 60 a Bruxelles" (also known as "Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 1960s in Brussels"), Tous les garcons et les filles de leur age..., 1994
Television Writings
Other
Dis-moi (movie; also known as Tell Me), 1980
Un jour Pina m'a demande (also known as One Day Pina Asked Me and On Tour with Pina Bausch), 1983
L'homme a la valise (also known as The Man with the Suitcase), 1984
Other
Contributor to Bordering on Fiction: Chantal Akerman's D'est, ArtPublishers, 1995.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Bordering on Fiction: Chantal Akerman's D'est, Art Publishers, 1995
Margulies, Ivone, Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday, [Durham, NC], 1996
Women Filmmakers and Their Films, St. James Press, 1998

Periodicals

Artforum International, January, 1996, p. 92; November, 1998, p. 113
Art in America, December, 1998, p. 90
Feminist Review, 1979
Film Comment, November-December, 1993
Filmmaker, spring, 2001, p. 38
Monthly Film Bulletin, April, 1984March, 1990
Nation, April 14, 1997, p. 35
Postmodern Culture, September, 1995
Premiere, July, 1994

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