---
name: "Claire Atherton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/claire-atherton"
fi1m_id: "claire-atherton"
imdb_id: "nm0040445"
tmdb_id: 1270678
wikidata_id: "Q22917723"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T03:19:11.517888+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Claire Atherton

## Identity

Claire Atherton

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/claire-atherton
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** claire-atherton
- **IMDb ID:** nm0040445
- **TMDB ID:** 1270678
- **Wikidata ID:** Q22917723
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Atherton, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22917723, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0040445/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1270678

Editor. Born 1 January 1963 in San Francisco.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 1963, San Francisco
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Atherton, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22917723, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0040445/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1270678

## Coming up

- *For the Moon* (2026-10-06), Editor

## Biography

Claire Atherton is a film editor. Born in 1963 in San Francisco, she grew up in Paris and trained at the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière.

She began working with Chantal Akerman in 1984 and edited many of the director’s films and installations over more than thirty years, including *A Couch in New York* (1996), *The Captive* (2000) and *No Home Movie* (2015). She has also edited films by Éric Baudelaire and others.

In 2019 Atherton received the Vision Award Ticinomoda at the Locarno International Film Festival.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, walkerart.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Captive* (2000), Fi1m 72, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-captive.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *For the Moon* (2026), Editor
- *Fire of Wind* (2026), Editor
- *The Flame of a Candle* (2025), Editor
- *The Vanishing Point* (2025), Editor
- *Man in Black* (2023), Editor
- *Intermede* (2022), Editor
- *Didier’s Letters* (2022), Editor
- *A Flower in the Mouth* (2022), Editor
- *Alterations – Kō Murobushi* (2020), Editor, Sound
- *A Dramatic Film* (2019), Editor
- *Les cavaliers fantômes* (2019), Editor
- *Also Known as Jihadi* (2017), Editor
- *Silêncio* (2016), Editor
- *Jumbo/Toto, Stories of an Elephant* (2016), Editor
- *No Home Movie* (2016), Editor
- *Who killed Ali Ziri ?* (2015), Editor
- *Hungry Man* (2013), Editor
- *Au monde* (2013), Editor
- *My Mother Laughs Prelude* (2012), Editor
- *Almayer's Folly* (2012), Editor
- *Detroit: Wild City* (2010), Editor
- *Mafrouza/Heart* (2010), Editor
- *Witches, My Sisters* (2010), Editor
- *Maniac Summer* (2009), Cinematography, Sound Editor
- *East with Sonia Wieder-Atherton* (2009), Editor
- *Down There* (2006), Editor
- *Operation Hollywood* (2004), Editor
- *Tomorrow We Move* (2004), Editor
- *Making of Tomorrow We Move* (2004), Editor
- *From the Other Side* (2003), Editor
- *The Captive* (2000), Editor — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-captive.md)
- *South* (1999), Editor
- *Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman* (1997), Editor
- *The Day When...* (1997), Editor
- *A Couch in New York* (1996), Editor
- *From the East* (1993), Editor
- *In Memory* (1987), as Mixing Engineer
- *Mallet-Stevens Street* (1986), Editor
- *Letters Home* (1986), Editor
- *Les racistes ne sont pas nos potes, les violeurs non plus* (1986), Director, Editor
- *Into The World (Au Monde)*, Editor

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