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Chantal Akerman, a Brussels-born and now Paris-based filmmaker, is world famous for her deconstructive style, pessimistic humor and corrosive observations of identity, sexuality, and politics. Akerman’s films have been called the single most important and coherent body of work by a women director, and her film “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles” (1975) was praised by the “New York Times as ”the first masterpiece of the feminine in the history of cinema”. In addition to her many short and feature films, Chantal Akerman has produced documentaries and video installations. Among her most celebrated films are: Saute my ville (Blow up my town); News from Home; Les Rendez-vous d 'Anna; Je, tu, il, elle; Window Shopping ; Toute une nuit (All night long; Les Annèes 80 (The Eighties); Nuit et jour (Night and Day); D'Est (From the East; Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des annèes 60 à Bruxelles (Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the1960s in Brussels); Un Divan à New York (A Couch in New York); and most recently, Sud; and La Captive. Her video installations, last exhibited at the Venice Art Biennale 2001 and Kassel Documenta 2002, and documentaries display an intensive personal gaze, most notably in Selfportrait / Autobiography: Work in Progress.
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Chantal Akerman is a professor of film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where she conducts a summer workshop. |
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