Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman

A collection of films showing how imaginatively Akerman filmed herself and how personal her cinema was right from the start.

  • Director

    Chantal Akerman

  • France 1997. 63min

  • Digital

  • English subtitles

An episode from Cinema, de notre temps.

+ Akerman – Examen d’entrée INSAS – Knokke 1967 (Films 1-2)

+ Akerman – Examen d’entrée INSAS – Bruxelles 1967 (Films 1-2)

Belgium 1967. Director Chantal Akerman. Total running time 14min. Digital. Silent. U

+ Saute ma ville

Blow Up my Town

Belgium 1968. Director Chantal Akerman. 13min. Digital (restoration)

A collection of films demonstrating how staunchly personal Akerman’s cinema was. At 17, she made four shorts as her entry ticket to film school. They show abiding subjects, among them, her mother. After she dropped out came her incendiary critique of domesticity and conformity, the Chaplinesque Saute ma ville, in which she plays the manic heroine. Almost 30 years later, she reflected on filmmaking in a playful self-portrait.

Total running time 90min.

The screening of Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman on Wednesday 12 February 20:15 NFT3 will be introduced by Helen de Witt, Club des Femmes.

Also available on BFI Player