Chantal Akerman, Pioneer of Feminist and Structuralist Fi | Criticwire

Chantal Akerman is one of my top favorite filmmakers… I will miss her work.

Tributes to the pioneering director of “Jeanne Dielman” and “No Home Movie”

Source: Chantal Akerman, Pioneer of Feminist and Structuralist Fi | Criticwire

Chantal Akerman, whose movies revolutionized both feminist and structuralist cinema, has died at the age of 65. Her death leaves a gap as incalculable as her impact on the history of cinema; that she died, according to Le Monde, by her own hand is almost unfathomable. News of her death reaches the U.S. just a day before “No Home Movie’s” first screenings at the New York Film Festival…