This public programme looks at cinema through the eyes of Chantal Akerman. The forms and themes in her work resonate beyond her films, acting as a starting point for interrelating various images, reflections and sensibilities in a manner akin to an exercise in montage.

Through conversations and screenings of a variety of materials, it proposes a constellation of works, filmmakers, moments and ideas that is sometimes diffuse and other times dazzling. It is about a genealogy on the go, a journey that invites us to consider a work beyond its boundaries.

Thinking through Chantal Akerman: a genealogy in the move it's a programme open to learn about Akerman’s working methods, explore how other feminist filmmakers have worked on some of her recurring themes from other languages and geographies, and consider how her idea of cinema can be used to question the recent history.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Chantal Akerman. Facing the Image.

14 July
6 - 8 pm - The Art of Editing
Lecture by Claire Atherton, film editor and curator of the exhibition Chantal Akerman. Facing the Image [EN/ES]

15 July
6 - 8 pm - Beyond Akerman: Feminist Experiments with the Moving Image
Lecture by Erika Balsom, researcher and lecturer in film studies at King’s College London [EN/ES]

16 July
6 - 7.30 pm – Genealogia bat abian
Lecture by Andoni Imaz curator and film critic and Arantza Santesteban Research and Public Programmes Curator of Artium Museoa [EU/EN]
7.30 - 8 pm - Final conclusions. Claire Atherton, Erika Balsom, Andoni Imaz and Arantza Santesteban (EU/ES/EN).

RESEARCH RESIDENCY (linked to the public programme):
Guest resident: Andoni Imaz.

Curators of the public program
Arantza Santesteban
Andoni Imaz

Free entry until full capacity is reached