Born in Brussels in 1950. Directed her first short film in 1968, film in which she was the only actor and which already looked forward to the director's unusual vision of our daily environment, with its blend of black humor, fantasy and insolence. Directed her first feature in New York in 1972, but it was with "Jeanne Dielman" that critics and audiences discovered her work. In her most recent work she has alternated documentaries and autobiographical fiction: "Sud" (documentary, 1999), "La Captive" (fiction, 2000), "De l'autre côté" (documentary, 2002), "Demain on déménage" (fiction, 2004) et "Là-bas" (documentary, 2006).