This video of Andrea Geyer on Chantal Akerman was recorded at Dia:Chelsea on October 30, 2018 as part of Dia's Artists on Artists Lecture Series.

---

Andrea Geyer / Bibliography / Dia Artist on Artist Lecture

The performance text is composed of original writing or words of Chantal Akerman with intermittent additions by the artist about her own encounter with Akerman, Dia’s history and more. 

 

Text

A Family in Brussels, 2001, Book and CDs

A Reading at the Dia Center for the Arts October 2001

 

Dialogue from movies by Chantal Akerman

 

J’ai Faim, J’ai Froid.1984, 12 minutes

Directed by Chantal Akerman / Produced by Chantal Akerman

Written by Chantal Akerman

Starring: Maria de Medeiros, Francine Sandber

Cinematography: Luc Benhamou

 

Je Tu Il Elle, 1974, 86 minutes

Directed by Chantal Akerman / Produced by Chantal Akerman

Written by Chantal Akerman, Eric de Kuyper, Paul Paquay

Starring: Chantal Akerman, Niels Arestrup, Claire Wauthion

Cinematography: Bénédicte Delesalle / Edited by Luc Freche

 

News from Home, 1976, 85 minutes

Directed by Chantal Akerman / Produced by Alain Dahan

Cinematography: Babette Mangolte, Jim Asbell / Edited by Francine Sandberg

 

Les Rendez-vous d'Anna, 1978, 127 minutes

Directed by Chantal Akerman / Written by Chantal Akerman

Starring: Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Magali Noël

Cinematography: Jean Penzer / Edited by Francine Sandberg

 

No Home Movie, 2016, 115 minutes

Directed by Chantal Akerman / Produced by Chantal Akerman, Patrick Quinet, Serge Zeitoun

Written by Chantal Akerman

Starring: Chantal Akerman, Natalia Akerman

Cinematography: Chantal Akerman / Edited by Claire Atherton

 

Excerpts from Chantal Akerman speaking in the following documentaries

 

Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (English Subtitled), 1996, 64 minutes

Directed by Chantal Akerman

 

I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman, 2016, 67 minutes

A film by Marianne Lambert / Starring Chantal Akerman, Gus Van Sant

 

From Here: Chantal Akerman, 2015, 61 minutes

A Film by Gustavo Beck, Leonardo Luiz Ferreira

 

Excerpts from video interviews: 

 

2009 interviews, for the Criterion Collection

celluloidVIDEO, A Conversation With CHANTAL AKERMAN // Venice 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUStWsegZ0k

 

Excerpts from written interviews:

 

Chantal Akerman: The Pajama Interview by Nicole Brenez  

Interviews recorded in Paris between Paris, July 15 and August 6, 2011. Published at Lola Journal, Issue 2: Devils 2011, Reprinted, with kind permission, from the now definitively out-of-print bilingual (French/English) Viennale ‘Useful Book #1’ publication: Chantal Akerman, The Pajama Interview (2011). English translation by David Phelps, revised by LOLA, http://www.lolajournal.com/2/pajama.html

 

Excerpts from lectures

 

Chantal Akerman + Catherine Breillat. Film Theory,2001

Open Lecture at European Graduate School

Media and Communication studies department program, Saas-Fee Switzerland, Europe

 

Excerpts from the correspondence between Chantal Akerman and Lynne Cooke,curator, Dia Art Foundation, New York, 1991–2008. Including project proposals for Sud andLà-bas (referred to as On the Middle East) found in the Dia Archive

 

Other Resources

 

Conversation with Lynne Cooke October 23^rd, 2018

Multiple conversations with Barbara Clausen, October 2018 

Stephan Urbaschek, Dia Art Foundation : Institution und Sammlung 1974-1985, PhD, 2003 

Ivone Margulies, Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday. 1996

Duke University Press

Dia Archive

 

 

Audio: Andrea Geyer on Chantal Akerman, Audio