Recognized as one of the most important directors in film history, Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman has produced over 50 film and video works, in the genres of documentary and French New Wave-inspired fictional narrative. *Moving Through Time and Space* was produced in conjunction with a major touring exhibition and presents her key films and major installations, spotlighting the crossover genres of film and visual art. It introduces her work to those who have not viewed it first-hand through interpretive and anecdotal commentary.
The five featured projects–including a newly commissioned film–span more than two decades of Akerman's career and allow new insight into the shifting frames between fact and fiction that characterize Akerman's work. Exploring the politics of territorial borders, recent histories of racism, and the poetics of personal journeys, Akerman's films touch on ideas about image, gaze, space, performance, and narration.
Born in Brussels in 1950, Akerman has made more than twenty-five films since 1968, and has been awarded the Lumiere Award, FIRPRESCI Prize (International Federation of Film Critics), and a Golden Lion nomination (Venice Film Festival), among other distinctions.
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