Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, Pts. 1 and 2

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Title

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, Pts. 1 and 2

Subject

feminist, woman director, experimental

Description

Dub of VHS filmed from 16mm print projected on a wall. I taught this film frequently in feminist film classes. It never stops giving: ideas about watching, time, and female's agency as actor, director, viewer, and "homemaker."


Creator

Filmed from 16mm print off a wall for teaching and put on two VHS tapes.

Source

Criterion Collection

Date

1975

Language

French

Coverage

A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow, whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick. In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting character study or as one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades. -Criterion Collection

Abstract

"A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow, whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick. In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world." (Criterion)

Extent

3 hours 21 minutes

Medium

VHS

Moving Image Item Type Metadata

Duration

3 hours 21 minutes

Director

Chantal Ackerman

Player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih3nBxjkBH8

https://brooklyn-cuny.yuja.com/V/Video?v=11718407&node=51532618&a=133880865
https://brooklyn-cuny.yuja.com/V/Video?v=11718710&node=51533552&a=145643444

Files

Citation

Filmed from 16mm print off a wall for teaching and put on two VHS tapes., “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, Pts. 1 and 2,” VHS Activism Archive , accessed December 8, 2025, https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/671.

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