De l'autre côté (From the Other Side) (still)
2002
documentary, video and 16mm film
courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris

CHANTAL AKERMAN Belgium
Academy Cinemas

Background

Born in Brussels, Belgium in 1950, Chantal Akerman is currently based in Paris. A filmmaker since the late 1960s, Akerman has produced numerous short and feature length films taking the role of director, screenwriter and, on occasion, cinematographer. She came to prominence in 1975 with her film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. More recent titles include Sud / South, 1999; La Captive, 2000; De l'autre côté / From the Other Side, 2002; and Tomorrow We Move, 2004. Latterly, her practice has expanded to include video installations, which have been shown in the 49th Venice Biennale, 2001 and Documenta 11, Kassel, 2002. Other group exhibitions include Faces in the Crowd: The Modern Figure and Avant-Garde Realism, Whitechapel Gallery, London and Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'arte Contemporanea, Turin, 2004 and Super Vision, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2006. Her work has been the subject of self-titled solo exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2004; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, 2005; Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal, 2006; and Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2006. Akerman's practice is considered in the monograph by Gwendolyn Foster, Identity and Memory: The Films of Chantal Akerman, 2003.