CHANTAL AKERMAN  


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Chantal Akerman
Brussels, 1950.
Lives and works in Paris.

EXHIBITIONS (Selection)

2004  
Faces in the Crowd
, Whitechapel, London, United Kingdom.
Chantal Akerman, Ecole supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse, France.
Marcher à côté de ses lacets dans un frigidaire vide / titre provisoire, juin 2004, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France.
Chantal Akerman, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

2003  
Fast Forward: Media Art from the Goetz Collection
, ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Chantal Akerman, Galeria Marian Goodman, Paris, France ("Une Voix dans le Désert", third part of the instalation "From the Other Side").
Crossing the Line, Kunsthalle Wine, Vienna, Austria ("From the other side").
A Respeito de Situações reais, Paço das Artes (USP), São Paulo, Brazil ("From the Other Side").
Les Amériques, Cruauté & Utopie, villes et Paysages d ’Amérique Latine, Civa: Centre International pour la Ville, l ’Architecture et le Paysage, Brussels, Belgium, ("From the Other Side").
Chantal Akerman, Galería Marian Goodman, Paris, France; Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom ("Avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton", une pièce-film).
Experience, Foto Biennale, Rotterdam.
Micropolitics, ‘De l ’autre coté’, EACC Espai d ’art Contemporani De Castellò, Spain ("From the Other Side")

2002        
Documenta XI
, Kassel, Germany ("De l'autre coté").
Les Enfants du Paradis, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France ("Hotel Monterey").
Extreme Existence, Pratt Institute, New York, U.S.A ("D'Est").

2001        
Biennale di Venezia
, Venize, Italy  ("Woman Sitting after Killer")

2000  
Media City,
Seoul Biennial, Korea.

1999  
So Far Away So Close
, Espace Meredian, Brussels, Belgium ("Selfportrait / Autobiography" - a work in progress).

1998  
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
Voilà, Musée d'art contemporain de la ville de Paris, Paris, France (Selfportrait / Autobiography" - a work in progress).

1995  
Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U.S.A; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, U.S.A; Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Bélgium;  Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany; IVAM Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain; The Jewish Museum, Nueva York, U.S.A. ("D'Est: Au Bord de la Fiction")

FESTIVALS

2003  
14th Festival International du Documentaire, Marseille, France ("Avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton").
The 32nd International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Nederlands ("De l'autre coté")

2001  
XVI International Video & Multi-media Arts Festival, Musée d ’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.

1998        
Clermont Ferrand ("D'Est: Au Bord de la Fiction").

PERFORMANCE

2001  
Book launch ‘A family in Brussels’, Dia Centre for the Arts, New York, U.S.A.

FILMOGRAPHY (Selection)

2003        
Demain On Déménage
, film 35mm. Production: Gemini Films, Paradise Films.
De l ’autre Côté, Film, 35mm, distributor: Shellac
Avec Sonia Wieder-Atherton, Video, 40 min, Coproduction: AMIP, ARTE France, with: Sonia Wieder-Atherton (Cello), Imogen Cooper (piano), Sarah Iancu (Cello), Matthieu Lejeune (Cello)

2002  
De l ’autre Côté
, Video, 16mm, Production: AMIP, Chemah I S, ARTE France.

1999  
La Captive
, 35mm, Production: Gemini Films

1998/1999  
Sud
, Video, 70mm, Production: AMIP, Chemah I S , ARTE France

1997  
Le Jour OU
, 35mm, colour, 7 min, Production: WAKA Films (Switzerland)

1996        
Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman
, Video, 63 min, Production: AMIP, Chemah I S, ARTE France
Un Divan à New York, 35mm, colour, 105 min, Production: Les Films Balenciaga Paris, Babelsberg Films, Germany, Paradise films, Brussels, RTBF, Screenplay: Chantal Akerman (in collaboration with Jean-Louis Benoit), Starring: Juliette Binoche and William Hurt

1993        
Portrait d ’une Jeune Fille de la Fin des Années 60, à Bruxelles
, 35mm, 60 min, Production: IMA, Paris, Screenplay: Chantal Akerman, Starring: Circé, Julien Rassam and Joëlle Marlier
D ’Est, 35mm, colour, 107 min, Production: Paradise Films, Brussels, Lieurac Production, Paris, Screenplay: Chantal Akerman

1992  
Le Déménagement
, 35mm, colour, 42 min, Production: Le poisson Volant, Paris, Screenplay: Chantal Akerman, Starring: Sami Frey

1991  
Nuit et Jour
, 35mm, colour, 90 min, Production: Pierre Grise Production, Paris, France; Paradise Films, Brussels, Belgium; George Reinhart Production, Zurich, Switzerland; C.V.C; Canal plus, RTBF, Screenplay: Chantal Akerman (in Collaboration with Pascal Bonitzer), Starring: Guilaine Londez, Thomas Langman and François Négret

1989  
Trois Strophes sur le Nom de Sacher, Henri Dutilleux
, Video, colour, 30 min, Production: Mallia Films, La Sept, Arcanal, CGP, Starring: Sonia Wieder-Atherton
Les Trois Dernières Sonates de Franz Schubert, Video, colour, 49 min, Production: Mallia Films, La Sept, Arcanal, CGP, Starring: Alfred Brendel

1988        
Histoires d ’Amérique
, 35mm, colour, 7 min, Production: Mallia Films, Paris, France; Paradise Films, Brussels, Belgium; LA Sept, Bibliothèque Publique d’Information, Centre Georges Pompidou, RTBF, Screenplay: Chantal Akerman, Starring: Judith Malina y Roy Nathanson

1986  
Mallet-Stevens
, Video, colour, 7 min, Production: BRT, Starring: Sonia Wieder-Atherton, Coralie Seyrig and Chantal Akerman
Letters Home, Video, colour, 104 min, Production: Centre Simone de Beauvoir, Paris, France. Starring: Delphine Seyrig and Coralie Seyrig.
Le Marteau, video, colour, 14 min.
La Paresse, 35mm, colour, 14 min. Starring: Chantal Akerman and Sonia Wieder-Atherton

1985  
Golden Eighties
, 35mm, colour, 14 min. Production: La Cécilia, Paris, France; Paradise Films, Brussels, Belgium; Limbo Film, Zurich, Switzerland. Screenplay: Chantal Akerman, Léora Barish, Henry Bean, Pascal Bonitzer and Jean Gruault. Starring: Delphine Seyrig, John Berry, Jean François Balmer, Myriam Boyer, Fanny Cottençon, Charles Denner, Lio, Pascale Salkin and Nicholas Tronc.

1984  
Lettre D’Une Cinéaste
, 16mm, colour, 8 min. Production: Paradise Films, Brussels, Belgium.
New-York, New-York BIS, 35mm, black and white, 8 min.
Family Business, 16mm, colour, 18 min. Production: Large Door LTD, London, United Kingdom. Starring: Chantal Akerman, Marilyn Watelet, Leslie Vandermeuler, Cleen Camp and Aurore Clément.
Paris Vu Par 20 Ans Après. . .J’ai Faim, J’ai Froid, 35mm, black and white, 12min. Production: JM Production, Films A2. Screenplay: Chantal Akerman. Starring: Maria de Medeiros and Pascale Salkin.

1983        
L’Homme à la Valise,
16mm, colour, 60min. Production: INA, Paris, France. Screenplay: Chantal Akerman. Starring: Chantal Akerman and Jeffrey Kime.
Un Jour Pina M’a Demandé, 16mm, colour, 57min. Production: INA, A2, R.M. Arts, RTBF and SSR.
Les Années 80, video 35mm, colour, 82min. Production: Paradise Films, Brussels, Belgium; Abilene Production, Paris, France. Screenplay: Chantal Akerman and Jean Gruault. Starring: Aurore Clément, Magali Noël and Lio.

1982  
Toute Une Nuit
, 35mm, colour, 89 min. Production: Avida Films, Paris, France; Paradise Films, Brussels, Belgium. Screenplay: Chantal Akerman. Starring: Aurore Clément, Samy Szlingerbaum, Natalie Akerman and Simon Zalewski.

1980  
Dis-Moi
, 16mm, colour, 45min. Production: I.N.A.

1978  
Les Rendez-Vous d’Anna
, 35mm, colour, 127 min. Production: Hélène Films, Paris, France; Unité Trois, Paris, France; Paradise Films, Brussels, Belgium; ZDF, Mainz, Germany. Screenplay: Chantal Akerman.
Starring: Aurore Clément, Jena-Pierre Cassel, Helmut Griem, Magali Noël, Léa Massari and Hans Zieschler.

1976  
News From Home
, 16mm, colour, 85 min. Production: Unité Trois, Paris, France, INA, Paris, France; Paradise Films, Brussels, Belgium. Screenplay: Chantal Akerman. Narrator: Chantal Akerman.

1975  
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
, 35mm, colour, 200 min.
Je Tu Il Elle, 35mm, black and white, 90 min. Production: Paradise Films, Brussels, Bélgium. Screenplay: Chantal Akerman. Starring: Chantal Akerman, Niels Arestrup and Claire Wauthion.

1973        
Hanging Out Yonkers
, unfinished - 16mm, colour, 90 min. Production: Paradise Films, Brussels, Belgium. Screenplay: Chantal Akerman.
Le 15/8, 16mm, black and white, 42 min. Production: Paradise Film, Brussels, Belgium. Screenplay: Chantal Akerman and Samy Szlingerbaum.

1972  
La Chambre 2
, 16mm, colour, 11 min. Production: Paradise Films, Brussels, Belgium. Screenplay: Chantal Akerman.
La Chambre 1, 16mm, colour, 11 min. Production: Paradise Films, Brussels, Belgium. Screenplay: Chantal Akerman.
Hôtel Monterey, 16mm, colour, 65 min. Production: Paradise Films, Brussels, Belgium. Screenplay: Chantal Akerman.

1971        
L’Enfant Aimé Ou Je Joue à Etre Une Femme Mariée
, 16mm, black and white, 35min. Starring: Chantal Akerman, Claire Wauthion and Daphne Merzer.

1968  
Saute Ma Ville
, 35mm, black and white, 13 min. Starring: Chantal Akerman.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Une Famille à Bruxelles, 1998 / Récit. Editions de l’Arche
Un Divan à New York, 1996. Editions de l’Arche
Hall de Nuit, 1992 / Théâtre. Editions de l’Arche
Le Déménagement / Théâtre. Editions de l’Arche