I Don’t Belong Anywhere -  Le Cinéma de Chantal Akerman, explores some of the Belgian filmmaker’s 40 plus films. From Brussels to Tel-Aviv, from Paris to New-York, this documentary charts the sites of her peregrinations. An experimental filmmaker, a nomad, Chantal Akerman shares her cinematic trajectory, one that has never ceased to interrogate the the meaning of her existence. Thanks in great part to the interventions of her editor, Claire Atherton, she delineates the origins of her film language and her aesthetic stance.

I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman

Jake and Mati are two outsiders in the northerly Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a brief connection. A mystery remains about the moments they shared, and in searching through memories, they relive the depths of a night uninhibited by the consequences of time.

Porto

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 excerpt stayed with me for a while.  This prompted me to focus on Chantal’s sound work in her films and her very close collaboration with cellist, Sonia Wieder-Atherton with whom she made more than 20 films.  And, since New York, Paris and Moscow were places the three of us had in common, I intertwined some of my images with hers.

Son chant

A new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with their first meeting in the early 1970s. Using her own footage of Chantal Akerman, the filmmaker remembers a few moments that illustrate Chantal's personality. Forty years of friendship condensed into four minutes...

But Elsewhere Is Always Better

Çığır açan auteur Chantal Akerman, annesi Natalia’yla ilişkisini ele alıyor. Yahudi Soykırımı’ndan sağ kurtulan annesi, Akerman’ın birçok filminde de boy göstermişti.

No Home Movie

La Folie Almayer is the adaptation made by Chantal Akerman of Joseph Conrad's eponymous novel. A story of passion, perdition and madness somewhere in Southeast Asia that the filmmaker shot in Cambodia in 2010 with Stanislas Merhar, Aurora Marion and Marc Barbé in the main roles. Present on the set, Sopheak Sao filmed the filmmaker at work in the heart of exotic vegetation and in the black waters of a river that seems to lead nowhere. The images she filmed were edited in 2021 by the Belgian editor Marwan Montel and show how formal and aesthetic work is a vector of the narrative aspect in the work of the Belgian director. A wonderful opportunity to find her as close as possible and to slip into the heart of her work.

Autour de La Folie Almayer

Unemployed guests constantly pour into Jane's house, mistaking her for the previous tenant, a mystery man. Jane, though unemployed, lives her innocent life, with brief dreams and quiet hopes for her future. Her friend Suleiman, though bankrupt, lives his dynamic life around his fantasies and plans for the future. When the landlord's daughter, the Princess, demands rent from Jane, the unemployed, things are to change forever.

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An analysis of the work of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (1950-2015), an experimental and innovative artist, both in content and form, who has left her mark on cultural memory and on the creations of other artists.