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Join Us PARIS — The densely layered retrospective Chantal Akerman: Travelling at the Jeu de Paume spans the career of the influential Belgian filmmaker from her early beginnings in Brussels — including Super 8 footage she submitted for admission to the art institute INSAS in 1967 and her first short, the 1968 manic tragicomedy Saute ma ville (“Blow Up My Town”) — to her genre-defying documentary A Voice in the Desert (2002), which traces the plight of Mexican immigrants at the US-Mexico border. As a filmmaker, writer, and visual artist, the late Akerman nimbly navigated styles and genres, with her work relentlessly insisting on the porosity between fiction and documentary, interior and exterior, tragedy and comedy, the personal and the political. She was also one of the first filmmakers to make the leap from cinema to museum spaces, a move that — according to her longtime editor Claire Atherton — allowed her greater freedom and the .