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Chantal Akerman: The Long View
September 11, 2025 – October 16, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA’s complete retrospective of Chantal Akerman’s work for the cinema, comprising more than 40 features and rarely screened short films in new digital preservations, celebrates a multiyear effort by the Foundation Chantal Akerman and the Cinematek Brussels to restore, document, and exhibit her career in film, installation, and writing. International audiences hungering to discover more about Akerman (b. Belgium, 1950–2015) in the wake of her death have been rewarded with unprecedented access to her moving-image and paper archives.
In addition to her feature films, all recently restored—from Je, tu, il, elle (1974), News from Home (1977), Golden Eighties (1986), D’Est (1993), and Almayer’s Folly (2011) to her venerated Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)—MoMA’s retrospective also offers a renewed appreciation of her work in the short film form, including the four 8mm studies she made in the summer of 1967 as part of her entrance exams to the Brussels film school INSAS; her collaborations with the German choreographer Pina Bausch, the Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel, the French cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton, and the actors Aurore Clément, Catherine Deneuve, and Sami Frey; and her searching portraits of teenagers in Yonkers, nightfall over Shanghai, and a group of elderly Jewish women who survived the Holocaust (including, of course, her mother Natalia).
On September 9, 2025, as part of Crossing the Line Festival and in collaboration with MoMA, L’Alliance New York presents the New York premiere of D’Est en musique, a live performance with Sonia Wieder-Atherton, at their Florence Gould Theater.
Please refer to the screening schedule here.
Organized by Joshua Siegel, Curator, with Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, and Irene Rihueta Varea, Intern, Department of Film. Thanks to Sylviane Akerman and the Foundation Chantal Akerman, Cinematek Brussels, Janus Films, Icarus Films, and INA.
Film at MoMA is made possible by CHANEL.
Additional support is provided by the Annual Film Fund. Leadership support for the Annual Film Fund is provided by The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art, Agnes Gund through The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), and The Young Patrons Council of The Museum of Modern Art.
Images
Les Rendez-vous d’Anna. 1978. France/Belgium/West Germany. Directed by Chantal Akerman. © Fondation Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK
Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman (Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman). 1997. France. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Icarus Films
D’est (The East). 1993. Belgium/France. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Icarus Films
Demain on déménage (Tomorrow We Move). 2004. Belgium/France. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Le Petit Bureau
De l’autre côté (From the Other Side). 2002. Belgium. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK – © Fondation Chantal Akerman
Golden Eighties. 1986. Belgium/France/Switzerland. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK – © Fondation Chantal Akerman
Histoires d’Amérique. 1989. Belgium/France. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK – © Fondation Chantal Akerman
Hotel Monterey. 1972. USA. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK – © Fondation Chantal Akerman
Je tu il elle (I, You, He, She). 1976. Belgium/France. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK – © Fondation Chantal Akerman
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. 1975. Belgium/France. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK – © Fondation Chantal Akerman
La bas (Down There). 2006. France. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Icarus Films
La Captive (The Captive). 2000. France. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK – © Fondation Chantal Akerman
Les Années 80 (The Eighties). 1983. Belgium. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK – © Fondation Chantal Akerman
Letters Home. 1986. France. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir
Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (The Meetings of Anna). 1978. France/Belgium/Germany. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK – © Fondation Chantal Akerman
Le Déménagement (Moving In). 1992. France. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK – © Fondation Chantal Akerman
News from Home. 1976. Belgium/France/Germany. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK – © Fondation Chantal Akerman
No Home Movie. 2015. Belgium/France. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK – © Fondation Chantal Akerman
Nuit et jour (Night and Day). 1991. Belgium/France. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK – © Fondation Chantal Akerman
One Day Pina Asked…1983. France. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Icarus Films
Portrait d’une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles (Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 1960s in Brussels). 1994. France. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK – © Fondation Chantal Akerman
Toute une nuit (All Night Long). 1982. Belgium. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK – © Fondation Chantal Akerman
Un divan à New York (A Couch in New York). 1998. Belgium/France/Germany. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy ADVA
Rue Mallet-Stevens. 1987. Belgium. Directed by Chantal Akerman. Courtesy Collections CINEMATEK – © Fondation Chantal Akerman