Chantal Akerman
Chantal Anne Akerman was a Belgian filmmaker, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York (2011–2015). Akerman is best known for her films Je Tu Il Elle (1974), Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), and News from Home (1976). The second of these was ranked the greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound magazine's 2022 "Greatest Films of All Time" critics poll, making her the first woman to top the poll. The other two films also appeared in the same poll.
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“ When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films .” – Chantal Akerman
