Author Marilyn Watelet

Marilyn Watelet

Marilyn Watelet began in Belgian television; in 1975, with Chantal Akerman, she created Paradise Films, where she remained until 2011; later worked as a location manager, assistant director, production coordinator and producer on more than thirty fiction films and documentaries, while teaching at the INSAS (the École supérieure des Arts du Spectacle) from 1992 onwards. She has also worked on her own documentary films (including Fin de Siglo and École 27) since 1994.

With Chantal

Marilyn Watelet

December 2015

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

I met Chantal in a bourgeois high school, where we both got up to no good. We felt ill at ease there and we would often play truant to go to the movies. We would head into town, and it was in a tiny downtown t...