Chantal Akerman

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Chantal Akerman (2012)

Chantal Anne Akerman (born June 6, 1950 in Brussels - † October 5, 2015 in Paris ) was a Belgian film director , screenwriter and actress .

Life

Chantal Akerman was the daughter of Holocaust survivors from Poland, about whom she also reflected on film. Akerman dropped out of studies at the Belgian film school in 1967 after a few months. In 1968 she studied theater studies in Paris and also appeared in public with short and experimental films. Her subsequent films were mostly portraits of women or had feminist themes as their subject. Akerman initially distanced himself radically from the usual entertaining narrative cinema in terms of visual language and technology. In her later films, she gradually abandoned this radicalism in favor of a more conventional structure and narrative style. Her entire oeuvre amounts to more than forty short and feature films, in which documentary and fiction, comic and tragic, self-awareness and foreign exploration are treated with a peculiarly gentle rigor.

Her film installation From the other side (2002) was shown at Documenta11 . In 2011 a retrospective film dedicated to Chantal Akerman took place in the Austrian Film Museum . The Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp also presented a retrospective in 2012.

Chantal Akerman died of suicide in Paris on October 5, 2015 at the age of 65 .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1968: Saute ma ville
  • 1971: L'enfant aimé ou Je joue à être une femme mariée
  • 1972: La chambre
  • 1973: Hotel Monterey
  • 1973: Hanging Out Yonkers
  • 1973: Les grands-mères
  • 1973: Le 15/8
  • 1974: I, you, he, she (Je, tu, il, elle)
  • 1975: Jeanne Dielman (Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles)
  • 1977: Letters from Home (News from Home)
  • 1978: Anna's encounters (Les rendez-vous d'Anna)
  • 1980: Dis-moi, France
  • 1982: One day Pina asked me (Un jour Pina m'a demandé) (documentary about the work of Pina Bausch )
  • 1982: Hôtel des Acacias
  • 1982: A whole night (Toute une nuit)
  • 1983: Les Années 80
  • 1983: L'homme à la valise
  • 1984: J'ai faim, j'ai froid
  • 1984: Lettre d'une cinéaste: Chantal Akerman
  • 1984: New York, New York until
  • 1984: Family Business
  • 1986: Indolence (Portrait d 'une paresseuse / La paresse)
  • 1986: Letters home
  • 1986: Rue Mallet-Stevens
  • 1986: Le marteau
  • 1986: Golden Eighties
  • 1988: Histoires d'Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy
  • 1990: Les Trois Dernières Sonates de Franz Schubert
  • 1991: Nuit et Jour - The night, the day (Nuit et jour)
  • 1991: Amnesty International - Letter Against Forgetting (Amnesty International - Écrire contre l'oubli)
  • 1992: Le Déménagement
  • 1993: From the East (D'Est) (documentary)
  • 1994: Portrait of a girl at the end of the 1960s in Brussels (Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des annees 60, à Bruxelles)
  • 1995: A couch in New York (Un divan à New York)
  • 1996: Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman
  • 1999: South (Sud)
  • 2000: The Prisoner (La captive)
  • 2002: Beyond Sonora - Mexico (de l'autre côté)
  • 2004: Tomorrow we're moving (Demain on déménage)
  • 2006: La Bas
  • 2007: O Estado do Mundo, segment: Tombée de nuit sur Shanghai
  • 2008: Women from Antwerp in November (short film)
  • 2009: À l'Est avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton (documentary)
  • 2011: La folie Almayer
  • 2015: No Home Movie (documentary)

Awards (selection)

Chicago International Film Festival

  • 1976: Best film (Bronze Hugo) for Anna's encounters (Les rendez-vous d'Anna)

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

  • 1996: Award of Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention for A Couch in New York (Un divan à New York)

Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival

  • 2001: Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Award - Special Mention for the South (Sud)

Prix ​​Lumières

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Prize

DVD

literature

Texts for individual films

  • Jörg Becker: A whole night . In: Film Review No. 318 of June 1983. pp. 283–285.
  • Frieda Grafe : The three Fs of the Jewish housewife - Chantal Akerman: Histoires d'Amérique . First published in: Süddeutsche Zeitung on February 8, 1990. In: Film für Film (= selected writings in individual volumes, 9th volume). Brinkmann & Bose, Berlin 2006. ISBN 3-922660-95-9 . Pp. 249-251.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ retrospective of Akerman's films ( Memento of 28 April 2005 at the Internet Archive ) - Arsenal , Berlin
  2. ↑ Belgian film director Chantal Akerman has died. In: derstandard.at , October 6, 2015, accessed on October 6, 2015.
    Isabelle Regnier: La cinéaste Chantal Akerman est morte. In: lemonde.fr , October 6, 2015, accessed October 6, 2015 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Akerman, Chantal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Akerman, Chantal Anne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian film director, screenwriter and actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 2015
Place of death Paris , France