Chantal Akerman was born in 1950 in Brussels to Natalia and Jacob, Polish jews who had survived Auschwitz. She wanted to become a filmmaker after seeing Godard's Pierrot le Fou, and dropped out of film school after three months to make her first short film in 1968, Saute ma ville. She would go on to make over sixty films for the cinema, television and galleries, developing her own documentary-influenced visual language. She was accompanying her last work, No Home Movie, an essay-film about her mother, to European film festivals when she was hospitalised for depression in 2015, and died by suicide soon after. She was 65.

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Chantal Akerman was born in 1950 in Brussels to Natalia and Jacob, Polish jews who had survived Auschwitz. She wanted to become a filmmaker after seeing Godard's Pierrot le Fou, and dropped out of film school after three months to make her first short film in 1968, Saute ma ville. She would go on to make over sixty films for the cinema, television and galleries, developing her own documentary-influenced visual language. She was accompanying her last work, No Home Movie, an essay-film about her mother, to European film festivals when she was hospitalised for depression in 2015, and died by suicide soon after. She was 65.

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