Chantal Akerman Movie Trailers
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In Her Own Words Trailer (2024)
23 January 2024
This visual essay, produced in 2023, builds upon rare radio interviews that Chantal Akerman gave in 1975 and 1977, in which she reflects on her films and her ascendance to critical success.
Seven Women, Seven Sins Trailer (1986)
19 April 1986
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amongst the world's most renown: Helke Sander (Gluttony), Bette Gordon (Greed), Maxi Cohen (Anger), Chantal Akerman (Sloth), Valie Export (Lust), Laurence Gavron (Envy), and Ulrike Ottinger (Pride).
Letters Home Trailer (1986)
08 March 1986
A filmed adaptation of Rose Leiman Goldemberg’s play, based on Sylvia Plath’s intense correspondence with her mother Aurelia, from the time the poet was in university until her suicide.
Moving In Trailer (1993)
30 March 1993
"A man stands amid unpacked boxes in his new home, delivering an extended monologue on indecision and dislocation.
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman Trailer (1997)
19 February 1997
Janine Bazin and André Labarthe approached Chantal Akerman about making a film for the series; eagerly, Akerman proposed a number of filmmakers—but all had already been done.
Paris Seen By... 20 Years After Trailer (1984)
11 May 1984
Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.
The State of the World Trailer (2007)
16 June 2007
Six directors, six independent films, six visions on the state of the world. Each carrying a unique and personal interpretation of a specific experience, their crossover creates new space for a dynamic and radical inquisitive reflection.
Bruxelles: À la Foire du Midi Trailer (1967)
01 September 1967
The first film by Chantal Akerman, a short silent 8mm film shot during the Brussels summer Midi Fair, that was one of four short films she made as a short of entrance exam at INSAS were she studied for just a couple of months.
Interview with Aurore Clément Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
"Aurore, my friend, Aurore, the main actress of Rendez-vous d'Anna and other films of mine, our meeting, the why and how of our joint work".
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.
Calling the Shots Trailer (1988)
08 September 1988
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps Trailer (1985)
09 October 1985
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 film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film in-production, as the birth of a child.
But Elsewhere Is Always Better Trailer (2016)
01 March 2016
A new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with their first meeting in the early 1970s.
I'm Hungry, I'm Cold Trailer (1984)
07 July 1984
Two girls come to Paris for the first time and try to live.
For Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador Trailer (1991)
19 February 1991
Commissioned by Amnesty International for its TV program Ecrire contre l’oubli (Write Against Oblivion), Akerman’s contribution in the form of a poem is dedicated to Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, an El Salvadorian trade unionist and mother of three, murdered by the US-backed junta.
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.
Maniac Summer Trailer (2009)
05 December 2009
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 no specific subject or topic.
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.
I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman Trailer (2015)
28 September 2015
I Don’t Belong Anywhere - Le Cinéma de Chantal Akerman, explores some of the Belgian filmmaker’s 40 plus films.
Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman Trailer (1984)
19 November 1984
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 glamorous counterpart to Akerman who sports a drawn-on moustache.
Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas Trailer (1989)
17 May 1989
A portrait of pianist Alfred Brendel performing and analysing Franz Schubert's final three sonatas.
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.
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.
Nightfall in Shanghai Trailer (2007)
24 May 2007
Tombée de nuit sur Shanghaï is Akerman’s contribution to the collective film L’état du monde (2007).
Les variations Dielman Trailer (2010)
13 May 2010
Found footage using Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman.
Son chant Trailer (2021)
01 May 2021
"Going through my mini DVs shot over the past decade, I rediscovered a forgotten night sequence of Chantal Akerman and Sonia Wieder-Atherton leaving a brasserie where we had dined together in Montparnasse.
The Day When... Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
Chantal Akerman reads a script detailing the woes that befell her on the day she thought about "The Future of Cinema".
Chantal Akerman, an autobiography Trailer (2006)
02 February 2006
El Pampero records Chantal Akerman's visit to Argentina in 2005.
The Hammer Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
The hammer is the tool a sculptor uses to chip away at the block. It is the emblematic tool of French artist Jean-Luc Vilmouth.
Making of Tomorrow We Move Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
What a revelation and a privilege it is to see Chantal Akerman at work. Its French title a pun, this film offers behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Tomorrow We Move: makeup and costume tests, script readings, scene blocking and rehearsals, and on-set interviews with Aurore Clément and Sylvie Testud, her lead actresses, as well as Akerman herself.
Untitled Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
In this recently rediscovered home movie, three women—Chantal Akerman, Babette Mangolte, and Epp Kotkas—share a precious moment of laughter and friendship while filming Hotel Monterey in 1972 in New York.
Interview with Babette Mangolte Trailer (2007)
01 January 2007
"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 New York years, she introduced me into the very core of what was new, even revolutionary, in New York, and our interview is about the city of New York in the early 70s.
On Belonging Trailer (2016)
01 August 2016
Ibro Hasanović met Chantal Akerman in 2014. From their recent friendship, this film was born, where the director reflects on her childhood, her work, and what "belonging" means to her.