Chantal Akerman Movie Trailers
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Golden Eighties Trailer (1986)
25 June 1986
In a lively shopping center, proprietors and customers are bustling, including three women vying for a man's heart with song and dance.
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Trailer (1976)
21 January 1976
A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon.
The Captive Trailer (2000)
27 September 2000
Ariane lives with Simon in his large Paris flat. Simon is obsessed with her: he wants to know everything about her, secretly follows her when she goes out, asks questions all the time, even in the most intimate moments.
Guest Trailer (2011)
25 March 2011
Filmmaker José Luis Guerin documents his experience during a year of traveling as a guest of film festivals to present his previous film.
Morceaux de Cannes Trailer (2021)
02 July 2021
We thought we'd seen, read, and heard everything there was to see about the Cannes Film Festival, from the glitz and gossip to the scandals and censorship.
Portrait of a Lazy Woman Trailer (1986)
19 April 1986
Belgian director Chantal Akerman struggles to overcome her laziness in the name of making a film about the subject.
The Meetings of Anna Trailer (1978)
08 October 1978
Detached filmmaker Anna Silver arrives in Germany to show her latest film; over the course of some days, she encounters a variety of new and old faces, some of whom make personal revelations to her to little affect.
The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
In this unfinished work, a young mother, her little girl, as well as a friend of the mother's, spend the summer in a villa.
Je Tu Il Elle Trailer (1974)
19 November 1974
A woman suffers a subdued psychological breakdown in the wake of a devastating breakup.
What Is Cinema? Trailer (2013)
06 September 2013
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others do that can't be expressed in words - but only in cinema.
Birth of a Nation Trailer (1997)
06 August 1997
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.
The Ministries of Art Trailer (1989)
11 February 1989
Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot.
Chantal Akerman, From Here Trailer (2010)
15 October 2010
Invented by the post-New Wave, the exercise is well-known: put a filmmaker in the frame, make him talk about his career, evoke his admirations, rummage in his methods, and add words to silences, spoken images to seen images.
Pictures of Europe Trailer (1990)
25 April 1990
What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between American independent and Hollywood movies and films from European directors.
Toute une nuit Trailer (1982)
27 October 1982
Following over two dozen different individuals in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance is examined.
Hotel Monterey Trailer (1976)
29 November 1976
New York City's Monterey is a residence hotel, whose inhabitants are older and primarily live alone. The camera, usually stationery, observes the lobby.
Down There Trailer (2006)
15 February 2006
Akerman spends a month in Tel Aviv, in an apartment by the sea, contemplating childhood, family, and her Jewish identity.
Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the '60s in Brussels Trailer (1994)
04 November 1994
The main character, Michèle, spends the hour discussing her views of life with some old and new friends, and tries to understand her own feelings about her place in the world and her sexuality, while a camera follows along at close range.
News from Home Trailer (1976)
12 November 1976
Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.
Hôtel des Acacias Trailer (1982)
01 January 1982
Several young men and women arrive one after the other at Hôtel des Acacias, full of hope, desire and vitality.
From the East Trailer (1993)
16 September 1993
In this incisive dispatch from the newly collapsed Soviet empire, bullet holes from WWII still pockmark the old stone buildings.
South Trailer (1999)
15 May 1999
Chantal Akerman investigates the American Deep South through the story of a lynching and grisly murder of an African-American man that took place in Texas in 1998.
La chambre Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Akerman, by using 360° camera pans, explores the space of a small room like a succession of still lifes : a chair, fruits on a table, solitary objects in waiting.
A Couch in New York Trailer (1996)
21 February 1996
A burnt-out New York psychoanalyst exchanges apartments with a Parisian woman. When his patients arrive, they talk to her and then pay.
Night and Day Trailer (1991)
28 August 1991
Jack and Julie live in a bare Parisian flat. By day, they make love; by night, Jack is a taxi driver while Julie wanders the city.
No Home Movie Trailer (2016)
24 February 2016
Akerman films her mother Natalia, an elderly woman of Polish origin, in her Brussels apartment. For two hours, we will see them eating, chatting and sharing memories, sometimes accompanied by Sylvaine, Chantal's sister.
The Eighties Trailer (1985)
10 May 1985
All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny French outing.
Porto Trailer (2017)
27 July 2017
Jake and Mati are two outsiders in the northerly Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a brief connection.
East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton Trailer (2009)
08 March 2009
Presented in 2 parts, this 83 minute piece documents Wieder-Atherton's idea to do a set of pieces from across central and eastern Europe, including Russia.
Le 15/8 Trailer (1973)
15 August 1973
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 and little events in a long, uninterrupted monologue.
Tomorrow We Move Trailer (2004)
03 March 2004
Single woman Charlotte tries to write erotic fiction despite not having any sensual experience.
Almayer's Folly Trailer (2012)
25 January 2012
In 1940s Malaysia, European merchant Kaspar Almayer is obsessed with finding a treasure to secure his daughter's future.
American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy Trailer (1989)
04 October 1989
An exploration of Jewish American identity in a multilayered portrait of the immigrant experience. A series of first-person addresses delivered by a cross-section of Jewish New Yorkers, whose by turns tragic and humourous tales speak to a collective history of trauma, displacement, and resilience.
From the Other Side Trailer (2003)
04 June 2003
From the Other Side is a haunting and minimalist documentary that explores the tragic realities of illegal immigration along the U.
Interview with my Mother, Natalia Akerman Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
In this 2007 interview, an off-camera Chantal Akerman interviews her mother about her films. The producers of the interview originally intended to edit out Akerman’s questions but ultimately decided to keep them in to preserve the candor of the mother-daughter rapport.
‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen Trailer (1974)
05 November 1974
Various unrelated vignettes, often juxtaposing sound and image.
I'm Hungry, I'm Cold Trailer (1984)
07 July 1984
Two girls come to Paris for the first time and try to live.
With Sonia Wieder-Atherton Trailer (2003)
28 September 2003
The short documentary starts with Wieder-Atherton telling the story of how she came to fall in love; first with music in general, and then with the cello, and goes on tell how she found her specific style, using the music to try and almost form words of communication.
Mallet-Stevens Street Trailer (1986)
24 March 1986
Commissioned for the centenary of the famous French architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens and shot on the street that bears his name in Paris' 16th arrondissement, Rue Mallet-Stevens depicts a mysterious, nocturnal scene of romance (featuring Akerman and her partner, the cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton) unfolding before and inside one of the street's modernist constructions.
Autour de La Folie Almayer Trailer (2022)
13 November 2022
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 dreams of riches for his daughter are shattered by his greed and prejudice.
Delphine and Carole Trailer (2020)
14 January 2020
In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France.
The Art of Time Trailer (2009)
10 October 2009
Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter the uniform sense of time promoted by our technology-driven society.
Hanging Out Yonkers Trailer (1973)
23 March 1973
An unfinished Chantal Akerman film about the troubled youths and drug addicts going through rehabilitation in Yonkers.
Three Stanzas on the Name of Sacher Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
Far from Standardised visual recording, Akerman and her accomplice, the cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton allows us to discover a fine moment of contemporary music.
Knokke: Une petite fiction 2 Trailer (1967)
04 September 1967
A 3rd short super 8 film made by Chantal Akerman in Knokke to be used to be accepted at INSAS starring her friends her mother and herself.
Chantal Akerman Trailer (2013)
04 November 2013
Interview with the Belgian director discussing her films from the 1970s and her mother’s influence on her work.
What Lies Beneath the Sky Trailer (2015)
01 January 2015
What Lies Beneath the Sky is a portrait of New York City hit by hurricane Sandy shot in Super 8.
My Mother Laughs Prelude Trailer (2012)
12 March 2012
“My mother laughs prelude” is a performance from the book that Chantal made about her mother. In 2013, Akerman’s mother was dying.
No Vladimir Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
Vladimir is an impeccably dressed student who wants to become a spy. In pursuit of this goal he learns all he can about espionage, learning codes and leaving secret messages for his college roommate (the narrator).
Lest We Forget Trailer (1991)
11 December 1991
A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner.
The Man with the Suitcase Trailer (1983)
15 November 1983
A sensitivity to sounds coming from the activities of an unwelcome guest in the close quarters of an apartment is only one important component in this atmospheric, avant-garde drollery by Chantal Akerman.
Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn Trailer (1967)
02 September 1967
A 4th short super 8 film made by Chantal Akerman with her friends in Brussels, shot in front of the former Hotel van Cleve-Ravenstein coincidentally the place where now CINEMATEK and the archives of the Chantel Akerman Fondation are residing.
Now Trailer (2015)
13 May 2015
Chantal Akerman produced NOW for the Venice Biennale in 2015, shortly before her death. Presented on multiple large screens, this seven-channel video installation consists of images of desolate landscapes and a soundtrack that combines singing, street noise, and the sounds of engines and gunfire.
Saute ma ville Trailer (1968)
09 April 1968
Suburbs of Brussels. A young woman locks herself in the kitchen of her apartment, as she blissfully devotes herself to dismantling the household chores, frenetically humming as she goes.
One Day Pina Asked... Trailer (1989)
07 July 1989
Chantal Akerman followed famous Choreographer Pina Bausch and her company of dancers, The Tanzteater Wuppertal, for five weeks while they were on tour in Germany, Italy and France.
Examen d'entrée INSAS Trailer (1967)
30 September 1967
The beginnings of Chantal Akerman behind the camera at the ages of 17 and 18: four films shot in Super 8 during the summer, presented to enter the National Higher Institute of Performing Arts and Broadcasting Techniques (INSAS, Brussels) in September 1967, where she was accepted.
Family Business Trailer (1984)
21 November 1984
Chantal Akerman was commissioned by Visions to make this short film for £20,000. It was first shown on 21 November 1984, on Channel 4.
Tell Me Trailer (1980)
25 August 1980
Chantal Akerman meets with elderly Jewish women in Paris, all of them survivors of the Shoah, and listens to their family stories.