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Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space
May 8 - August 2, 2009

The following films can be viewed at the Contemporary Wednesday - Sunday.
Sud (South), 1999
1 hour 11 minutes
Screening times at 10:00 am, 1:00 pm, and 4:00 pm
Lá-bas (Down There), 2006
1 hour 18 minutes
Screening times at 11:30 am and 2:30 pm

Recognized as one of the most important directors in film history, Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman presents her key films and major installations, spotlighting the crossover genres of film and visual art. The five projects of this touring exhibition, including a newly commissioned film, span more than two decades of Akerman’s career, opening a window on to the shifting frames between fact and fiction. Exploring the politics of territorial borders, recent histories of racism, and the poetics of personal journeys, Akerman’s films touch on ideas about image, gaze, space, performance, and narration.

Image credit lines:
Les femmes d’Anvers en Novembre (Women of Antwerp in November), 2007. Video installation. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris. Photo by David Ulmer.

De l’autre côté (From the Other Side), 2002. Video installation. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris. Photo by David Ulmer.

De l’autre côté (From the Other Side), 2002. Video installation. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris. Photo by David Ulmer.

De l’autre côté (From the Other Side), 2002. Video installation. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris. Photo by David Ulmer.

D‘est: Au bord de la fiction (From the East: Bordering on Fiction), 1995. Video installation. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris. Photo by David Ulmer.

Sud (South), 1999. Color video with sound. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris. Photo by David Ulmer.

Chantal Akerman, Là-bas (Down There) [still], 2006. Color video with sound. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris.

Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space is a collaborative effort of four institutions: Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston; the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Miami Art Museum (a MAC@MAM presentation); and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

The exhibition and catalog have been generously supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO). Additional support for the catalog has been provided by the Barbara Lee Family Foundation Fund at the Boston Foundation.

General support for the Contemporary’s exhibitions program is generously provided by the Whitaker Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; William E. Weiss Foundation; Nancy Reynolds and Dwyer Brown; Regional Arts Commission; Missouri Arts Council, a state agency; Arts and Education Council; and members of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.