My Mother’s Prison

Daniella Shreir: Chantal Akerman’s Predicament, 19 March 2026

Oeuvre écrite et parlée, 1968-2015 
by Chantal Akerman, edited by Cyril Béghin.
L’Arachnéen, 1584 pp., £60, April 2024, 978 2 37367 022 6
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Chantal Akerman Collection: Volume 1, 1967-78 
BFI, five discs, £54.99, February 2025Show More
Chantal Akerman Collection: Volume 2, 1982-2015 
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... possible.’ Akerman completed two films in New York, using the money she saved from her job as a booth girl at a gay porn cinema (men coming to see gay movies didn’t always check their change, or wait around for it). The first, Hotel Monterey, is an hour-long silent documentary about a ‘welfare hotel’ where Akerman herself had sometimes stayed. La ...