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Chantal Akerman's films of the 1970s and 80s made a significant contribution to cinema and feminist film theory. At that time her work combined a radical feminist narrative content with the questioning modes of address. In her insistence on developing a rigorous avant-garde procedural aesthetic, Akerman was influenced by the work of Michael Snow. She has described his film as working "exclusively on the language of cinema without any story or sentiment... it is language itself without the possibilities of identification". Akerman's work can be considered as a meditation on the problematic nature of the representational abilities of cinema. Many of her works contain images that are presented in unbroken takes from a fixed perspective, and her films are often marked by the lack of conventional cinematic devices such as dialogue or plot. Often set in real time, her films display a lack of hierarchy in the way in which the images are presented; the gradual accumulation of small details and everyday observations in the films create a language of great emotional power.

Akerman's work was the subject of a major retrospective at The Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2004. She has had solo exhibitions at Frith Street Gallery, London, Jewish Museum, New York, Jeu De Paume, Paris and the Walker Art Centre among others. Chantal Akerman Lives in Paris.

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in Brussels June 6, 1950.

Lives and works in Paris

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005
'D'Est: Au bord de la fiction', Malba - Coleccion Costantini, Buenos Aires

2004
Retrospective Integral, Cinema at Centre Pompidou, Paris

1998
Selfportrait/Autobiography - a work in progress
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Frith Street Gallery, London

1997
'D'Est: Au Bord de la Fiction', The Jewish Museum, New York

1995
'D'Est: Au Bord de la Fiction'
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Societe des Expositions du
Palais des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles, Bruxelles; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; IVAM Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006-07
'Touch My Shadow: the Goetz Collection, 'The Centre for Contemporary Art - Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw

2005
Contour 2005, 2nd Bienniale for Video Art, Belgium
Identita & Nomadismo, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna, Italy

2003
Frequencies, Frith Street Gallery, London: Press release
Micro Politics Espai d'art de Caastello, Spain
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

2002
Documenta XI
'Les enfants du Paradis', Yvon Lambert, Paris, September 2002
Extreme Existence, Pratt Institute, New York

2001
Venice Biennale
XVI International Video & Multimedia Arts Fesitval, Musee d'Art Moderne de la, Ville de Paris, Paris

2000
Media City Seoul Biennal, Korea

1999
'So Faraway So Close', Encore...Bruxelles, Espace Meredian, Brussels curated by Michael Tarantino

FILMOGRAPHY

* La Captive (1999) , 35 mm
Production: Gemini Films.

* Sud (1998/9) - video, 70 mn
Production, Amip, Chemah I S, Arte.

* Le Jour Ou, (1997) - 35mm, couleur, 7 min
Productions WAKA Films (Switzerland)

* Chantal Akerman By Chantal Akerman (1996) - video, 63 mn
Production, Amip, Chemah I S, Arte.

*Un Divan A New-York (1996) - 35mm, colour, 105mn
Production: Les Films Balenciaga, Paris; Babelsberg Films, Allemagne; Paradise films, Brussels; RTBF
Direction: Chantal Akerman, in collaboration with Jean-Louis Benoit Starring Juliette Binoche, William Hurt

*Portrait D'une Jeune Fille De La Fin Des Annees 60, A Brussels (1993)
35mm, colour, 60mn
Production: IMA, Paris
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Starring Circe, Julien Rassam, Joelle Marlier

*D'Est (1993) - 35mm, colour, 107mn
Production: Paradise Films, Bruxelles; Lieurac production, Paris
Directed by Chantal Akerman

*Le Demenagement (1992) 35mm, colour, 42mn
Production: Le Poisson Volant, Paris
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Starring Sami Frey

*Nuit Et Jour (1991) 35mm, colour, 90mn
Production: Pierre Grise Production, Paris; Paradise Films, Brussels; George Reinhart Production, Zurich; C.N.C; Canal plus; RTBF
Directed by Chantal Akerman in collaboration with Pascal Bonitzer
Starring Guilaine Londez, Thomas Langmann, Francois Negret

*Trois Strophes Sur Le Nom De Sacher, Henri Dutilleux (1989) - video, colour, 30mn
Production: Mallia Films, La Sept, Arcanal, CGP
Starring Sonia Wieder-Atherton

*Les Trois Dernieres Sonates De Franz Schubert (1989) video, colour , 49mn
Production: La Sept, INA
Starring Alfred Brendel

*Histoires D'amerique (1988) 35mm, colour, 92mn
Production: Mallia Films, Paris; Paradise Films, Brussels; La Sept; La Bibliotheque Publique d'Information; Le Centre Geoges Pompidou; RTBF
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Starring Judith Malina, Roy Nathanson.

*Mallet-Stevens (1986) - video, colour, 7mn
Production: BRT
Starring Sonia Wieder-Atherton, Coralie Seyrig, Chantal Akerman

*Letters Home (1986) - video, colour, 104mn
Production: Centre Simone de Beauvoir, Paris
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Coralie Seyrig

*Le Marteau (1986) - video, colour, 4mn

*La Paresse (1986) - 35mm, colour, 14mn
Starring Chantal Akerman, Sonia Wieder-Atherton

*Golden Eighties (1985) - 35mm, colour, 96mn
Production: La Cecilia, Paris; Paradise Films, Brussels; Limbo Film, Zurich
Directed by Chantal Akerman, Leora Barish, Henry Bean, Pascal Bonitzer, Jean Gruault
Starring Delphine Seyrig, John Berry, Jean Fran?ois Balmer, Myriam Boyer, Fanny Cottencon, Charles Denner, Lio, Pascale Salkin, Nicholas Tronc

*Lettre D'une Cineaste (1984) - 16mm, colour, 8mn
Production: Paradise Films, Brussels

*New-York, New-York Bis (1984 )- 35mm, black & white, 8mn

*Family Busness (1984) - 16mm, colour, 18mn
Production: Large Door LTD, Londre
Starring Chantal Akerman, Marilyn Watelet, Leslie Vandermeuler, Cleen Camp, Aurore Clement

*Paris Vu Par 20 Ans Apres... J'ai Faim, J'ai Froid (1984) 35mm, black & white, 12mn
Production: JM Production, Films A2
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Starring Maria de Medeiros, Pascale Salkin

*L'homme A La Valise (1983) 16mm, colour, 60mn
Production: INA, Paris
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Starring Chantal Akerman, Jeffrey Kime

*Un Jour Pina M'a Demande (1983) 16mm, colour, 57mn
Production: INA, A2, R.M. Arts, RTBF, SSR
Directed by Chantal Akerman

*Les Annees 80 (1983) video/35mm, colour, 82mn
Production: Paradise Films, Brussels; Abilene Production, Paris
Directed by Chantal Akerman, Jean Gruault
Starring Aurore ClZ¿ment, Magali Noel, Lio

*Toute Une Nuit (1982) 35mm, colour, 89mn
Production: Avidia Films, Paris; Paradise Films, Brussels
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Starring Aurore Clement, Samy Szlingerbaum, Natalia Akerman, Simon Zalewski

*Dis-Moi (1980) 16mm, colour, 45mn
Production: I.N.A.

*Les Rendez-Vous D'anna (1978) 35mm, colour, 127mn
Production: Helene Fims, Paris; Unite Trois, Paris; Paradise Flms, Bruxelles; ZDF, Mainz, Germany
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Starring Aurore Clement, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Helmut Griem, Magali Noel, Lea Massari, Hans Zieschler

*News From Home (1976) 16mm, colour, 85mn
Production: Unite Trois, Paris; INA, Paris; Paradise Films, Bruxelles
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Narrated by Chantal Akerman

*Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) 35mm, colour, 200mn
Production: Paradise Films, Bruxelles; Unite Trois, Paris
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Starring Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storch, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Yves Bical

*Je Tu Il Elle (1975) 35mm, black & white, 90mn
Production: Paradise Fims, Brussels
Directed by Chantal Akerman
Starring Chantal Akerman, Niels Arestrup, Claire Wauthion

*Hanging Out Yonkers (1973) inacheve - 16mm, colour, 90mn
Production: Paradise Films, Brussels
Directed by Chantal Akerman

*Le 15/8 (1973) 16 mm, black & white, 42mn
Production: Paradise Film, Brussels
Directed by Chantal Akerman, Samy Szlingerbaum

*La Chambre 2 (1972) 16mm, colour, 11mn
Production: Paradise Films, Brussels
Directed by Chantal Akerman

*La Chambre 1 (1972) 16mm, colour, 11mn
Production: Paradise Films, Brussels
Directed by Chantal Akerman

*Hotel Monterey (1972) 16mm, colour, 65mn
Production: Paradise Films, Brussels
Directed by Chantal Akerman

*L'enfant Aime Ou Je Joue A Etre Une Femme Mariee (1971) 16mm, black & white, 35mn
Starring Chantal Akerman, Claire Wauthion, Daphna Merzer

*Saute Ma Ville (1968) 35mm, black & white, 13mn
Starring Chantal Akerman

PERFORMANCE

2001
Une Famille de Bruxelles (1998), Theatrical reading by Chantal Akerman, Dia Center for the Arts, New York

BOOKS

Une Famille A Bruxelles - 1998
Editions de l'Arche

Hall De Nuit - 1992
Editions de l'Arche

Le Demenagement
Editions de l'Arche

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