Chantal Akerman Volume 2 1982-2015 Blu-Ray

Chantal Akerman was born in Brussels in 1950 to parents who survived the Holocaust. Over the course of nearly 50 years, she directed more than 40 films (short, medium-length, and feature-length) in the genres of fiction, documentary, musical, and literary adaptations. Today, she is considered one of the most important and influential directors of her generation. Akermans personal, non-conformist work has resonated with film lovers around the world and has become increasingly relevant since her death in 2015. Filmmakers such as Joanna Hogg (The Eternal Daughter), Céline Sciamma (Petite Maman), Alice Diop (Saint Omer), and Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez) have cited her radical and experimental approach to film as a direct source of inspiration.

Även om hon är mest känd för sin banbrytande andra spelfilm, Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), which topped Sight and Sound's list of the best films of all time in 2022 (and became the first film directed by a woman to take first place since the list began in 1952), Akerman never stopped rebelling and experimented continuously throughout her career to challenge the formal and narrative boundaries of film. The films Toute Une Nuit (1982), Les Annees 80 (1983), Golden Eighties (1986), La Paresse (1986), Histoires d'Amerique: Food, Family and Philosophy (1988), D'Est (1993), Sud (1999), La Captive (2000), De l'Autre Côté (2002), La-bas (2006), La Folie Almayer (2011), No Home Movie (2015)

Extras

Five Blu-ray discs featuring 12 groundbreaking films by Chantal Akerman

Hotel des Acacias (Yves Hanchar, Pierre Charles Rochette, Francois Vanderveken, Isabelle Willems, 1982): the result of an INSAS workshop led by Chantal Akerman

Audio commentary on Histoires d'Amerique: Food, Family, and Philosophy by Marc David Jacobs

No Home But Cinemas: The Spaces of Chantal Akerman (2025): video essay by author and critic Jessica McGoff

Le Rendez-vous de Chantal Akerman (2025): panel discussion with Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cellist and composer), Adam Roberts (co-founder of the collective A Nos Amours), Celine Brouwez (Fondation Chantal Akerman), Lynda Myles (former director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival), and Isabel Stevens (Sight and Sound)

Marilyn Watelet Q&A (2025): Akerman's lifelong friend and producer looks back on her life and career. Sonia Wieder-Atherton Q&A (2025): The cellist and composer discusses the Golden Eighties. Proust and Signs (2025): Video essay by writer and critic Cristina Alvarez Lopez on La Captive. Autour de la Folie Almayer (2022): documentary about the filming, shot by Sopheak Sao in 2010 and edited by Marwan Montel in 2021

Everyone Has Their Own Life (2025): video essay on No Home Movie by artist Sarah Wood

72-page book with new essays by Erin Nunoda, Daniella Shreir, Rachel Pronger, Ivone Margulies, Elena Gorfinkel, Blair McClenden, Catherine Wheatley, Ivan Ramos, Adam Roberts, Marion Schmid, Alisa Lebow, and Cristina Alvarez Lopez

Limited edition of 2,000 copies

Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English