Film Series
Chantal Akerman: Images Between the Images
“One of the great film artists of her generation.”
—J. Hoberman, The New York Times
Belgian director Chantal Akerman (1950–2015) forged a new cinematic language by wedding an uncompromising formal rigor with a profound depth of feeling. In an extraordinary oeuvre that encompassed travelogues, documentaries, literary adaptations, musicals, and at least one landmark of film history, Akerman explored alienation, female subjectivity, landscapes both physical and psychological, and her own identity. She was that rarest of artists: a visionary whose transfixing, exquisitely controlled camera style and searching intelligence offer a new way of experiencing the world.
BAMcinématek presents a career-spanning survey of “one of the great film artists of her generation” (The New York Times). See highlights from the retrospective in this series trailer.
Akerman’s extraordinary final film is a moving, formally adventurous tribute to her mother.
Akerman’s beautiful study in stillness screens alongside an unsettling self-portrait.
Two works created by Akerman for television.
Akerman took a rare detour into screwball territory with this stylistically daring comedy.
This tragicomedy of human connection and alienation unfolds over one night in Brussels.
A woman loves two men—one by day, one by night—in this beguiling portrait of young love.
Akerman’s minimalist masterpiece is a poignant reflection on distance and dislocation.
An inventive, exuberant musical filtered through Akerman’s avant-garde formalism.
Akerman explores a female filmmaker’s alienation in this quietly devastating tour-de-force.
Juliette Binoche and William Hurt star in this sophisticated romantic comedy.
Akerman turns the camera on herself in this candid cinematic self-portrait.
Akerman’s exceptionally rare film about elderly Jewish women who survived the Holocaust.
Delphine Seyrig stars in Akerman’s adaptation of a play based on Sylvia Plath’s letters.
Akerman’s incisive, tragicomic portrait of Jewish identity in New York.
Akerman offers a plaintive vision of the American South via the hate crime killing of James Byrd.
Akerman’s powerful documentary bears witness to life at the Mexican-US border.
Akerman explores confinement and Jewish identity from an apartment in Tel Aviv.
Akerman’s landmark study of female subjectivity screens with her incendiary debut short.
Akerman’s collaboration with Pina Bausch yields a sublime study of bodies in motion.
Akerman’s collaboration with Pina Bausch yields a sublime study of bodies in motion.
Sylvie Testud stars in Akerman’s mesmerizing take on Proust's La Prisonnière.
Akerman’s feminist landmark charts three days in the humdrum life of a widow.
Akerman’s adaptation of Conrad becomes a richly sensorial excursion into the heart of darkness.
Akerman’s record of post-Soviet Eastern Europe is a resonantly emotional travelogue.