Author Janet Bergstrom

Janet Bergstrom

Janet Bergstrom is a Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA who has followed Chantal Akerman’s work closely since 1976. She is working on an archivally-based study of F. W. Murnau’s career and a visual essay for the DVD of Sternberg’s The Salvation Hunters (Edition filmmuseum 2016).

Chantal Akerman

Chantal Akerman: Heartfelt

Janet Bergstrom

December 2015

Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion

I am watching Chantal Akerman talk about No Home Movie (2015) following the screening at Locarno in August. She talks a lot, she doesn’t want to stop. It’s incredibly moving. Only two weeks ago I saw the film ...