Chantal Akerman: The Long View
MoMA Presents Chantal Akerman Retrospective in New York
From 11 September to 16 October, The Museum of Modern Art in New York is presenting a complete retrospective of Chantal Akerman’s cinematic work, featuring over forty features and rarely screened shorts in newly restored digital versions. The programme marks the culmination of a long-term collaboration between the Fondation Chantal Akerman and CINEMATEK in Brussels to restore, preserve, and share Akerman’s œuvre across film, installation, and writing.
Alongside Akerman’s recently restored feature films – ranging from Je tu il elle (1974), News from Home (1977), Golden Eighties (1986), D’Est (1993), and Almayer’s Folly (2011) to her landmark Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) – the retrospective highlights her work in the short form. Screenings include the four 8mm films she made in the summer of 1967 for her entrance exam at INSAS, as well as collaborations with choreographer Pina Bausch, pianist Alfred Brendel, cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton, and actors Aurore Clément, Catherine Deneuve, and Sami Frey. The programme also revisits her intimate portraits of teenagers in Yonkers, twilight over Shanghai, and elderly Jewish women who survived the Holocaust, among them her mother Natalia.
On 9 September 2025, as part of the Crossing the Line Festival and in collaboration with MoMA, L’Alliance New York will host the New York premiere of D’Est en musique, a live performance with Sonia Wieder-Atherton, at the Florence Gould Theater.
Sabzian has previously published an extensive trilingual collection on Akerman’s work, featuring texts by and on the filmmaker. You can find it here.
The full screening schedule can be found here.
