In Memoriam – Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion Bérénice Reynaud December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion Chantal Akerman’s suicide on 5 October, 2015, did not only leave a void. It burnt a hole in the texture of time, and those of us who were nearby (in b...
Speech read out during the funeral ceremony for Chantal Akerman at the Père Lachaise cemetery, Tuesday, 13 October, 2015 Delphine Horvilleur December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion We have gathered here to accompany Chantal Akerman to this place that in Hebrew we call bet hashayim – “the house of the living”. This name can seem p...
A Last Conversation with Chantal Akerman Esther Orner December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion Dearest Chantal, I am speaking to you from Tel Aviv – a city you loved and visited often. We’d see each other, we’d have a good time together. Some...
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 movi...
Tribute to Chantal Akerman by Claire Atherton Claire Atherton December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion A text written and read by Claire Atherton at the homage to Chantal Akerman at the Cinémathèque Française on 16 November 2015, before the premiere scr...
Dear Chantal Yvonne Rainer December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion 12 October, 2015 Dear Chantal, Like so many others, I was shocked to hear of your suicide. In a narcissistic fantasy I imagine I might have help...
I Didn’t See Time Go By Vivian Ostrovsky December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion When people are enjoying a film they say ‘I didn’t see the time go by’… but I think that when time flies and you don’t see time passing by you are rob...
About Saute ma ville (1968), Chantal Akerman’s first film Nicole Fernandez Ferrer December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion “Look at a painting, read a book, have fun and here we go!” - Chantal Akerman in the documentary Chantal Akerman, écrivain de cinéma by Nicole Witar...
Chantal and Some Comrades. Fragments. Nicole Brenez December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion 1. Werner’s Gaze, by Chantal In the prospect of writing a text on Chantal, I viewed films she had shot during the 2008 Venice Film Festival, where sh...
The Loudness of the World: Listening to What is Out There: Sound Strategies in Akerman’s Fiction and Documentary Films Babette Mangolte December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion Looking at and listening to the first scene of Chantal Akerman’s J’ai faim, J’ai froid (1984), in the complex long shot that describes the arrival of ...
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...
Projection: On Chantal Akerman’s Screens, from Cinema to the Art Gallery Giuliana Bruno December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion A landscape expresses a mood. Such “expression” says exactly what we intend by the term “empathy.” – Theodor Lipps I would like to film . . . co...
Her Cinema, Even Elisabeth Lebovici December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion Chantal Akerman’s cinema is within me. This vaguely paranoid hypothesis, it seems to me that I share it with other women (undoubtedly some men as w...
These Shoes Are Made For Walking Bérénice Reynaud December 2015 Chantal Akerman: La Passion de L’Intime / An Intimate Passion Foreword In the 13 years before her death, Chantal Akerman completed only three narrative features, La Captive (The Captive, 2000), Demain on déménag...
