Chantal Akerman Retrospective

About the Akerman Retrospective

Over the next 18 months A Nos Amours are screening a complete retrospective of Chantal Akerman. Akerman is a touchstone film-maker for many theorists, feminists and film-makers. Nothing like a complete retrospective has ever been offered in the UK, and the time is right for this in-depth survey of a key figure in European cinema, whose immense body of work spans almost half a century.


Resources and Further Reading


Articles

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth: Interior & Interiority, Chantal Akerman's La-bas
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic958909.files//articles/ELB_Akerman.pdf

Huffington Post: Dis-moi, a Break through Work by Chantal Akerman by Adam Roberts
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/adamroberts/dis-moi---a-break-through-work-by-chantal-akerman_b_4896364.html

An interesting Akerman overview:

Film School Rejects : Google Mapping Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, Nov 2013:

University of Edniburough article: A Woman of Substance and Style:

Chantal Akerman and Angela Martin. Chantal Akerman's Films: A Dossier. Feminist Review. No. 3, 1979, pp. 24-47.:

Article on Hotel Monterey on Turner Classic Movies:

Adam Roberts on the ICA blog discussing Jeanne Dielman

Adam Roberts on the ICA blog discussing screening News from Home

Griselda Pollock on Jewish quarterly:
http://www.jewishquarterly.org/issuearchive/articled25c.html?articleid=418

Unspoken Cinema Blog article: Chantal Akerman - Walking Woman
http://unspokencinema.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/chantal-akerman-walking-woman.html

Chicago Reader - Hotel Monterey summery
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/hotel-monterey/Film?oid=1063143

Projectorhead - The Other Akerman: The Essay Film in News from Home (1976)
http://projectorhead.in/nine/the-other-akerman/

Criterion Cast - A Journey through the Eclipse Series: Chantal Akerman's Les Rendez-Vous D'Anna
http://criterioncast.com/reviews/a-journey-through-the-eclipse-series-chantal-akermans-les-rendez-vous-danna/

Essays

La Chambre Akerman, The Captive as Creator, Ivone Margulies, Dec 2005:

The Long Journey: Maternal Trauma, Tears and Kisses in a Work by Chantal Akerman, Griselda Pollock, 2010:
http://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/documents/pollock.pdf


Interviews

Afterall interview with Akerman, Nov 2013:

Video interview, Partisan Films + Ricky D’Ambrose, Nov 2013:

Kunstenfestivaldesarts 13 interview with Akerman, May 2013:

Criterioncollection interview with Akerman on Jeanne Dielman:

Criterioncollection interview with Akerman on Pierrot le Fou:
Lola Journal, Chantal Akerman: The Pajama Interview


Talks

Chantal Akerman and Catherine Breillat. Film Theory 2001, 1/7:

Chantal Akerman: Moving through Time and Space, MIT Media Lab:


Films/clips

Akerman sums up Jeanne Dielman:

A conversation with Chantal Akerman, Venice 2011:

Filming Jeanne Dielman (1975):

J’ai faim, j’ai froid (1984) on line:

And finally, a nice Akerman (non-serious) clip where she just won't put her fag out!
http://vimeo.com/22452903

and a fun mash up of Jeanne Dielman:
http://vimeo.com/45423751

Please get in touch if you have any further suggestions to add to this list: blog@anosamours.co.uk