Chantal Anne Akerman (June 6, 1950 – October 5, 2015) was a Belgian film director, artist and professor of film at the City College of New York. Her best-known film is Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). Despite being categorised as such by others, Akerman frequently distanced herself from the feminist label, explaining, "when people say there is a feminist film language, it is like saying there is only one way for women to express themselves". Instead, Akerman acknowledged that her cinematic approach took inspiration from the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, as well as from filmmakers Michael Snow and Jean-Luc Godard. Many directors have cited Akerman's directorial style as an influence on their work. Kelly Reichardt, Gus Van Sant, and Sofia Coppola have noted their exploration of filming in real time as a tribute to Akerman.

Filmography

• 2021Morceaux de Cannes
• 2017Porto — (voice)
• 2016No Home Movie — Self, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer, Sound
• 2015Now — Director
• 2015What Lies Beneath the Sky — Narrator(voice)
• 2012Almayer's Folly — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2012My Mother Laughs Prelude — Self, Director
• 2010Les variations Dielman — Thanks
• 2010On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici! — Co-Director
• 2009East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton — Director
• 2009Maniac Summer — Self, Director, Cinematography, Editor
• 2007Interview with Aurore Clément — Self, Director
• 2007Interview with Babette Mangolte — Self, Director
• 2007Interview with my Mother, Natalia Akerman — Self, Director
• 2007Nightfall in Shanghai — Director
• 2007The State of the World — Director, Director of Photography
• 2006Chantal Akerman, an autobiography
• 2006Down There — Self (voice), Director, Writer, Cinematography, Sound
• 2004Making of Tomorrow We Move — self, Director
• 2004Tomorrow We Move — Director, Writer
• 2003From the Other Side — Self (Narrator - Interviewer), Director, Writer, Director of Photography
• 2003With Sonia Wieder-Atherton — Director
• 2000No Vladimir — Supervising Producer
• 2000The Captive — Director, Writer
• 1999South — Director, Writer
• 1997Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman — Self, Director
• 1997The Day When... — Self, Director, Writer
• 1996A Couch in New York — Director, Screenplay, Dialogue
• All the Boys and Girls of Their Time — Director
• 1994Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the '60s in Brussels — Director, Writer
• 1993From the East — Director, Writer
• Monologues — Director
• 1993Moving In — Director, Writer
• 1991For Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador — Director
• 1991Lest We Forget — Director
• 1991Night and Day — Director, Writer
• 1989American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy — Director
• 1989Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas — Director
• 1989One Day Pina Asked... — Self (uncredited), Director
• 1989Three Stanzas on the Name of Sacher — Director
• 1987L'inhumaine — -
• 1986Golden Eighties — Director, Writer
• 1986Letters Home — Director
• 1986Mallet-Stevens Street — Director, Writer
• 1986Portrait of a Lazy Woman — Director, Writer
• 1986Sieben Frauen, sieben Sünden — Film Director (segment Portrait d'une Paresseuse), Writer
• 1986The Hammer — Director
• 1985She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
• 1985The Eighties — Director, Writer
• 1984Family Business — Self, Director, Writer
• 1984I'm Hungry, I'm Cold — Director
• 1984Letter from a Filmmaker: Chantal Akerman — Self, Director
• 1984Paris Seen By... 20 Years After — Director
• 1983The Man with the Suitcase — The Woman, Director, Writer
• 1982Hôtel des Acacias — Writer, Production Supervisor, Co-Director
• 1982Toute une nuit — Director, Screenplay
• Grands mères — Self, Director
• 1980Tell Me — Self, Director
• 1978The Meetings of Anna — Director, Writer
• 1976Chantal Akerman: An Interview — Chantal Akerman
• 1976Hotel Monterey — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1976Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles — Neighbor (voice) (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1976News from Home — Self - Letter Reader (voice), Director, Writer
• 1975Around Jeanne Dielman — Self, Editor
• 1974Je Tu Il Elle — Julie, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1974‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen
• 1973Hanging Out Yonkers — Director, Writer
• 1973Le 15/8 — Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
• 1972La chambre — Self - On Her Bed, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1971The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman — Self (uncredited), Director, Writer, Producer
• 1970Untitled — Director
• 1968Blow Up My Town — The Girl, Director
• 1967Bruxelles: La soeur et la mère de Marilyn — Director
• 1967Bruxelles: À la Foire du Midi — Director
• 1967Examen d'entrée INSAS — Director
• 1967Knokke: Une petite fiction — Director
• 1967Knokke: Une petite fiction 2 — Self (uncredited), Director

Appearances as themselves (21)

• 2024Chantal Akerman: Always on the Road — Self (archive footage)
• 2024In Her Own Words — Self
• 2022Autour de La Folie Almayer — Self
• 2021Son chant — Self
• 2020Delphine and Carole — Self (archive footage)
• 2016But Elsewhere Is Always Better — Self
• 2016My Name is Chantal Akerman — Self
• 2016On Belonging — Self
• 2015I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman — Self
• 2013Chantal Akerman — Self
• 2013What Is Cinema? — Self
• 2011Guest — Self
• 2010Chantal Akerman, From Here — Self
• 2009The Art of Time — Self
• 1997Birth of a Nation — Self
• 1990Pictures of Europe — Self
• 1989The Ministries of Art — Self
• 1988Calling the Shots — Self
• 1984De droomproducenten — Self
• Ciné regards — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self