Chantal Akerman’s early films (La Chambre, Hotel Monterey) were influenced by the experimental American cinema of Jonas and Adolfas Mekas, Andy Warhol, Yvonne Rainer and Michael Snow’s Wavelength. At 22 years old, freshly graduated from INSAS, Patricia Canino met Chantal Akerman and Delphine Seyrig during the last edition of EXPRMNTL, also known as the Knokke Experimental Film Festival founded by Jacques Ledoux, in the beginning of 1949. It was there that she was offered the job of editing Jeanne Dielman. Patricia Canino will discuss Akerman’s inspiration drawn from experimental cinema and her close collaboration with Akerman in crafting the masterpiece Jeanne Dielman.

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