Movies: Marilyn Watelet

Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acceptance and rejection in the realm of romance....

Moshe Amar is a once poet and now a "businessman" who left his wife with their new born in Israel twenty years ago and spent them in the land of limitless possibilities trying to leave a mark of immortality but, up to that point, only got the marks t...

A short documentary on the fabulous courthouse building in Brussels from the architect Joseph Poelaert, temporarily a house of dreams structured in 26 bits, 1 for each letter of the alphabet, from A-Z....

When her mother moves in, the life of a writer gets crowded....

The first film by Chantal Akerman, a short silent 8mm film shot during the Brussels summer Midi Fair, that was one of four short films she made as a short of entrance exam at INSAS were she studied for just a couple of months....

Chantal Akerman was commissioned by Visions to make this short film for £20,000. It was first shown on 21 November 1984, on Channel 4. Akerman herself plays the role of a director visiting Hollywood to find financing from an uncle she hardly knows. V...

Scenes of life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc....

An analysis of the work of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (1950-2015), an experimental and innovative artist, both in content and form, who has left her mark on cultural memory and on the creations of other artists....

All of the time and effort put forth to stage a musical is chronicled here in this bright and funny French outing. The story is set at a shopping mall where people audition for an upcoming show. Afterwards, they are seen going through the grueling ro...

A death in the family. Patrick dies and his three sisters gather at their parents' home in Normandy. Anne, the oldest, is steady, married with two children, showing little emotion. Isabelle, who's cut herself off from her family for eight years, retu...

During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film about a film in the making....

A 2nd short super 8 film made by Chantal Akerman in Knokke to be used to be accepted at INSAS....

Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt that the only way he could relate the story of his family’s search for refuge after World War II ...

A 4th short super 8 film made by Chantal Akerman with her friends in Brussels, shot in front of the former Hotel van Cleve-Ravenstein coincidentally the place where now CINEMATEK and the archives of the Chantel Akerman Fondation are residing....

An overview of black metal culture in Belgian youth....

A portrait of daily life in Cuba in the late 1990s,...

A 3rd short super 8 film made by Chantal Akerman in Knokke to be used to be accepted at INSAS starring her friends her mother and herself....

A short documentary on the creation of the fresco by Alba Fabre Sacristán paying homage to Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Made by Akerman's childhood friend and longtime collaborator Marilyn Watelet and also c...

They want a great man. They talk about it, about him, about the one they're looking for. And I don't tell them everything you're not, and I drink to stop looking for the man they're looking for....