Chantal Akerman

Chantal Anne Akerman (; 6 June 1950 – 5 October 2015) was a Belgian movie director, artist, and professor at the City College of New York. Her best-known movies were Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975).

Akerman was born to Jewish parents in Brussels.Guardian obituary She was a lesbian.Rare docs on French filmmakers She died on 5 October 2015 in Paris. Le Monde reported that she died by suicide after suffering from depression. She was 65.

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Other websites

 Artist's page in Artfacts.Net  with actual major exhibitions.
 Screens of Film, Video, Memory, and Smoke by Ana Balona de Oliveira in Fillip

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