Chantal Akerman – A Lasting Heritage

CHANTAL AKERMAN: TRAVELLING AT BOZAR

This exhibition traces the atypical trajectory of Belgian filmmaker, writer, and artist Chantal Akerman (Brussels 1950 – Paris 2015). From the very beginning in Brussels to the Mexican desert, from her very first films to her last installations in 2015. Curated by Laurence Rassel this is the first major exhibition on the Brussels-based artist, featuring unique and never-before-seen images, production, and working documents from her archive.

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BOZAR

RETROSPECTIVE AND CARTE BLANCHE AT CINEMATEK

Closely linked to the large exhibition at Bozar, CINEMATEK is hosting a 5-month series of screenings showcasing the complete oeuvre of Chantal Akerman. The retrospective is accompanied by a carte blanche of the director’s reference film, and is punctuated by talks and introductions with guests like Laura Mulvey (film theorist), Patricia Canino (editor of Jeanne Dielman), Caroline Champetier (director of photography) or Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cellist).

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CINEMATEK

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PROGRAMME
15/03/24: Saute ma ville + Pierrot le Fou introduced by Marylin Watelet.
21/03/24: Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles followed by a conversation with Patricia Canino .
04/04/24: Je tu il elle preceded by a conversation between Elisabeth Lebovici and Jessica Gysel (This is/this is not a queer feminist film).
21/04/2024: Toute une nuit followed by a conversation with Caroline Champetier.
10/05/2024: Golden Eighties + La Paresse introduced by Laura Mulvey.
11/05/2024: Un jour Pina + Rue Mallet Stevens introduced by Michèle Ann De Mey.
30/05/24: Histoires d’Amérique: Food, Family, Philosophy followed by a conversation between Sonia Wieder-Atherton and Luc Benhamou.

Second part of the programme to be announced soon.

Akerman’s cinematic work is complemented by a significant body of written work, collected in great parts in this publication. Chantal Akerman. Œuvre écrite et parlée is dedicated to Akerman’s texts, including screenplays, synopses, intentions notes, texts for the voiceovers of her films. The editing has been entrusted to Cyril Béghin who CINEMATEK is welcoming on March 28.

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L’ARACHNEEN

The online film magazine Sabzian is launching on March 13 a page containing a curated collection of texts by critics and scholars dedicated to Akerman’s filmography.

Sabzian

Three of Chantal Akerman’s documentaries, D’Est (1993), Sud (1999) and De l’autre côté (2002) are released on Avila’s collection, available to stream for the belgian public.

AVILA – Akerman collection

Akerman’s beloved musical Golden Eighties (1986) has just undergone a restoration realized by CINEMATEK and L’Immagine Ritrovata. On the occasion of the film’s re-release in 4k, Cinema Palace presents Exhibition Golden Eighties: On the set with Chantal Akerman, a free exhibition showcasing a collection of unpublished of set photographs (Jean Ber).

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Palace Cinema
Screenings agenda

Discussion between Luc Benhamou and Sonia Wieder-Atherton and musical moments.

Sonia Wieder-Atherton and Luc Benhamou wish to share a moment of exchange by questioning Chantal Akerman’s relationship with Judaism. Some of the possible approaches are through her work, but also through her positions on several issues, her relationship to biblical texts and to transmission. Music will also be present through the voice of Sonia Wieder-Atherton’s cello.

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Tickets

Previously

SEPTEMBER 9 – NOVEMBER 5
yours at Contour Biennial of Moving Images

The Contour Biennial, which opens in Mechelen on September 9, has taken up the baton by featuring Chantal Akerman in the collective film yours, an echo of her work and especially News from Home (1976) commissioned by the biennial’s curators and produced by artists Eva Giolo, Rebecca Jane Arthur, Katja Mater, Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat, Maaike Neuville). The film is screening at the Kunscentrum nona in Mechelen from Wednesday to Sunday until November 5. 

In collaboration with Contour, the Cinema Lumiere of Mechelen will also hold a screening of News from Home on October 28.

CONTOUR – KUNSTCENTRUM NONA

NEWS FROM HOME – CINEMA LUMIERE (MECHELEN)

SEPTEMBER 28
Avant-première of the restored version of Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978)

The Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, the Fondation Chantal Akerman and CINEMATEK are delighted to present the new restoration by CINEMATEK of Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978). On Thursday September 28 the film premiered at Palace in the presence of Aurore Clément and Sylviane Akerman.

The film is screening in Brussels and relaesed by Cinea in numerous cinemas in Flanders since October 4. Find out all the details about the re-release below.

CINEMA PALACE

SEPTEMBER 29 – 12H30
Inauguration of the Allée Chantal Akerman and of mural dedicated to the director

The Echevinat de la Culture of the City of Brussels wished to see in their 2023 street art parcours an echo of the Echevinat de l’Urbanisme’s decision to rename the central berm of the Quai du Commerce, Allée Chantal Akerman.

In collaboration with the All about thinks collective, the city invited the Spanish film-loving artist Alba Fabre Sacristan to draw inspiration from the work of Chantal Akerman. She used a scene from the legendary film Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Brussels.

The public joined on September 29 around the corner of Quai aux Barques and Rue Saint-André for the inaugurations of the mural and the newly named Allée Chantal Akerman. 

PARCOURS STREET ART BRUSSELS

ALLÉE CHANTAL AKERMAN

FROM OCTOBER 4
Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978) in Belgian cinemas

National release of the restored copy of Les Rendez-vous d’Anna. As of October 4, catch a screening at Cinema Palace (Brussels), Sphinx Cinema (Ghent), Cinema Lumière (Antwerp), Kunstcentrum Buda (Kortrijk), Cinema Storck (Ostende) and Cinema Lumière (Bruges).

Soon also available on Avila

OCTOBER 27 – MARCH 10
Her Voice – Echoes of Chantal Akerman at FOMU Antwerp

The group exhibition Her Voice – Echoes of Chantal Akerman presents photographic and video works by seven contemporary artists inspired by the work of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman. Manon de Boer, Moyra Davey, Gabby Laurent, Frida Orupabo, Joanna Piotrowska, Collier Schorr and Carmen Winant explore what it means today to be a woman, artist, mother, daughter and lover.

“I haven’t tried to find a compromise between myself and others, I have thought that the more particular I am, the more I address the general.”
– Chantal Akerman

FOMU ANTWERP

NOVEMBER 5 – MARCH 10
Complementary screenings at Lumières Antwerp for the exhibtion Her Voice

News From Home (1978), Je, tu, il, elle (1974) and Jeanne Dielman, 21, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) will screen over the coming months at Cinéma Lumières of Antwerp to accompany the exhibtion Her Voice – Echoes of Chantal Akerman. An occasion to (re)discover her staple films from the 1970s through the lense of the impact they still have on contemporary artists.

LUMIERES ANTWERP

MARCH 13
Inaugural screening of Jeanne Dielman by Bozar

To celebrate the opening of Bozar’s exhibition Chantal Akerman: Travelling, the Brussels’ institution is organising a screening of the restored version of Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles at Cinema RITCS.
Bozar Brussels

MARCH 14
D’Est en Musique at Bozar

Together with Akerman, cellist and lifelong partner Sonia Wieder-Atherton created a haunting cinematic concert in which D’Est resonates poetically with music by Schnittke, Martinů, Chopin and other composers from Russia and Eastern Europe. Accompanied by pianist Sarah Rothenberg, Wieder-Atherton revives this concert playing on the images of D’Est, coming up next in collaboration with Klara Festival at Bozar for the opening of its exhibition Chantal Akerman: Travelling.
Klara Festival