Unspoken Cinema

  JEANNE DIELMAN (1975): A Hiper-realidade do Cotidiano (YouTube) 34'46" (Arthur Tuoto) 13 Feb 2026 "Jeanne Dielman acompanha três dias da rotina rigorosa de uma viúva em Bruxelas, cuja vida é sustentada por um duplo trabalho doméstico e sexual. Aos poucos, pequenas falhas nesse cotidiano começam a corroer essa ordem e revelam como o tempo, o espaço e os objetos passam a agir contra ela. A aula destaca como Chantal Akerman transforma tarefas banais em matéria dramática, hipervisibiliza o trabalho invisível das mulheres e subverte o naturalismo clássico ao dilatar planos e construir uma “hiper-realidade” formal."

Photo: Evolution of a filipino Family (2004/Lav DIAZ) "In this guided film club, we will explore the world of slow cinema(s) from the Lumière brothers through the early 2020s. We will hold each other accountable as we finally work through mammoth runtimes on films like Lav Diaz’s Evolution of a Filipino Family (10 hours and 43 minutes). We will learn together and from each other about diverse cinema traditions and filmmakers. And we will even debate whether or not there even is even an identifiable movement or aesthetic that we can accurately call “slow cinema.”  Each meeting will have recommended (not required) short readings, optional viewings, and required viewings. All films will be reasonably accessible to view from home at free or low costs. Each group meeting will be scheduled for 90 minutes over Google Meet."  Discursions in Time: Slow and Poetic Cinema(s) — A Guided Film Club (There Were No Gods Left) Program (March 8th - May 31st 2026) Meeting 1: Short(s) Introdu...

Hamvas Béla út 11. (YouTube) 55'36" (Kis ZenFilms) 15 Jan 2026 * * * Hamvas Béla út 11. / Hamvas Béla street 11. (2025/Janos KIS/Hungary) a review by Benoit Rouilly Living the weight of an hour, a man takes us through the mundanity of unfettered existence. How much does an hour of human life weigh? Eight moments, eight plans-séquence tell the tale of a daily routine. The slightest gesture is well-rehearsed by life-long habits, not even conscious or calculated. A prosaic choreography of solitude takes place before our eyes. Not a single word is uttered as the unnamed protagonist undertakes repetitive chores. This individual is all of us when nobody’s watching. The muscle memory of his alienation draws lonely circles throughout his apartment. It is as much a chronicle of his life than it is a document of his living space. A modest home on the 13th floor in a Budapest social project from the 60ies. A socialist-era prefab apartment block. The washed-out facade is a vertiginous p...

"We continue our series on Akerman with a double-bill of personal documentaries about her mother, and of home. News from Home immediately follows her seminal Jeanne Dielman, and No Home Movie is the final film of Akerman’s filmography. In this episode, we thread the throughline across Akerman’s career in comparing both films, see the influence of structural and slow cinema, and marvel at her capacity for personal artmaking." Chantal Akerman: News From Home / No Home Movie ( Deep Cut podcast ) 24 August 2025 Spotify 54'44" Deep Cut: A Film Podcast is a director-focused film podcast featuring deep-dive discussions about international, art-house, and independent cinema. Each episode we discuss either a director's most popular film or a "Deep Cut Pick": a personal favorite chosen by one of us: Wilson Lai, Benjamin Yap, and Eli Sands.

"It’s about time. We tackle Chantal Akerman’s Sight and Sound topping Jeanne Dielman, and begin our series on her singular career. Ben introduces Akerman’s career, spotlighting her fierce conviction and crystalline vision, Eli loops in a melodramatic reading, and Wilson zeroes in on an ending that explosively caps off a 3.5h opus. And if you’re struggling with how to approach this film, as entertainment or as art, just remember: it’s about time." Jeanne Dielman ( Deep Cut podcast ) 11 August 2025  Spotify  1h32'  Deep Cut: A Film Podcast is a director-focused film podcast featuring deep-dive discussions about international, art-house, and independent cinema. Each episode we discuss either a director's most popular film or a "Deep Cut Pick": a personal favorite chosen by one of us: Wilson Lai, Benjamin Yap, and Eli Sands.

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  Céline Sciamma on Chantal Akerman | BFI in Conversation (YouTube) 55'22" (BFI) 15 April 2025 "Chantal Akerman's cinema has had a profound influence on Céline Sciamma, the French screenwriter and director of acclaimed films such as Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) and Petite Maman (2021). The Belgian auteur's radicalism has long inspired Sciamma on set but also shaped her wider view of filmmaking. Join us for a unique tour of Akerman's work from a director who believes that the art form should always be under the influence of teenagers in their bedrooms."

  All About Her Mother - Chantal Akerman video essay (YouTube) 6'10" (Reclaim The Frame) 22 Feb 2025

  Chantal Akerman Interview (New York, 2008) (YouTube) 32'36" (Fergus Daly) 23 Feb 2025 Interview for the film The Art of Time (2009) by Fergus Daly & Katherine Waugh

  Chantal Akerman: Adventures in Perception | BFI Trailer (YouTube) 1'33" (BFI) 10 jan 2025 ‘I want people to experience film in their body.’ – Chantal Akerman ‘Where are you Anna?’ drifts a voice out of an answerphone in Akerman’s mesmerising 1978 road trip Les Rendez-vous d’Anna. We could ask the same of the Belgian auteur. For where do we place her cinema? Across 40 films, Anna is one of many stand-ins for the director, who was ahead of her time making introspective odysseys from an innately feminist, queer, and Jewish perspective but who believed ‘all labels have to be thrown away’. Akerman had many deep-rooted obsessions beyond self-portraiture: confinement, mother-daughter relationships, exile, anxiety and loneliness, desire and the impossibility of human connection. But she never repeated herself. Her formally audacious films of the 70s, exemplified by Jeanne Dielman, reckoned with cinema’s essence – time and space – but her obsessions would go on to surface in comedie...

 Chantal Akerman. Travelling Jeu de Paume (Paris) | 28 septembre 2024-19 janvier 2025 "Le Jeu de Paume rend hommage à la cinéaste, artiste et écrivaine belge Chantal Akerman (Bruxelles 1950 – Paris 2015) à travers une exposition exceptionnelle, réalisée avec le Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, la Fondation Chantal Akerman et la cinémathèque royale de Belgique." Exposition Chantal Akerman. Travelling (YouTube) 40" (Jeu de Paume) 20 Sept 2024 "Le Jeu de Paume rend hommage à la cinéaste, artiste et écrivaine belge Chantal Akerman (Bruxelles 1950 – Paris 2015) à travers une exposition exceptionnelle. « Chantal Akerman. Travelling » retrace le parcours atypique de cette figure emblématique qui ne cesse d’inspirer et fasciner des générations d’artistes et cinéphiles." Note d'intention (extrait) pour Jeanne Dielman Dépliant & catalogue de l'exposition Ecouter aussi : Coppola/Akerman, des autoportraits en irrécupérables | France Culture  (1...

"In general, when people go to the cinema they say: “Ah, it’s great. I didn’t see the time passing.” But time is all we have in life. And in fact, when we don’t see the time pass it is as if we have 2 hours of our life stolen. So, for me, going to see one of my films is living an experience inside yourself, which is an experience both obviously visual but also of time passing in itself."  – Chantal Akerman "[..]Film, as a medium, has an intrinsic relationship with time. The very act of watching a film unfolds over a predetermined duration, often eliciting a unique psychological experience of time’s passage. When a viewer declares that they “lost track of time,” they express a profound engagement with the filmic narrative that goes beyond mere entertainment. This phenomenon invites questions about the nature of temporality itself: What does it mean to experience time while being absorbed in a story? And how does film manipulate our perception of this elusive conc...

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman) (YouTube) 3h14' ARTE Cinema (26 Nov 2024) FRANCAIS Film complet disponible jusqu'au 27 février 2025

Chantal Akerman : L' espace pendant un certain temps - Conference de Jérôme Momcilovic (YouTube) 1h32' (La Cinémathèque française) 23 Mai 2018

"Mark Kermode and Ellen E Jones take the scenic route through slow cinema - a genre of film that might challenge your attention span, but is almost guaranteed to change the way you watch. There is one particular film that’s inspired this week’s show, Chantal Akerman’s 3-and-a-half hour, slow moving masterpiece from 1975 - Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080, Brussels In December 2022, Jeanne Dielman topped Sight and Sound magazine’s Greatest Film of All Time poll. That caused quite a fuss because, for the last few decades, the poll has been dominated by Citizen Kane and Vertigo. Ellen speaks with critic Wendy Ide and film academic Dr Tiago de Luca to get deeper into the genre of slow cinema and explore this sea change in critics' tastes. One reason for Jeanne Dielman’s new found popularity is down to access. A film that was once almost impossible to see is now enjoying sell out runs in art house cinemas. In an extended interview, Mark talks with writer and filmmaker Adam...

  Chantal Akerman par Valérie Mréjan (YouTube) 4'30" (Blow Up) 25 Sept 2024

  Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975/Chantal Akerman/Belgium) (Designed by Benoit Rouilly) See also at Unspoken Cinema: Why Jeanne Dielman is the best film of all time?

I would like the viewer to have a physical experience of the time used in each shot. To have the physical experience of time unfolding inside you, of time entering you. Chantal AKERMAN, 2003 quoted in the article by Oleksandra Kalinichenko, " _UNDERSCORE, The Beauty And Horror of The Mundane " (7 May 2024)  

  (Designed by Benoit Rouilly)

  From Void to Memory - MUBI video essay (YouTube) 29'32" Film Scalpel (7 April 2020) Footage:  Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)  The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952)  Tokyo Story (Ozu Yasujirō, 1953)  An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962)  Fortini/Cani (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, 1976)  One Way Boogie Woogi (James Benning, 1977)  Too Early, Too Late (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, 1982)  Innisfree (José Luis Guerin, 1990)  Sud (Chantal Akerman, 1999)  One Way Boogie Woogie / 27 Years Later (James Benning, 2005)