sloth - seven women, seven sins (dir: chantal akerman)

The Image: “I’ll get up in a minute“ / “I’ll have a cigarette - and then make the bed.“ The previously uncelebrated art of procrastination (and the terror of the empty fridge.) To celebrate International Women’s Day (8 March, 2023) a typically subversive (and witty) short by Chantal Akerman called Sloth - one of seven short films by different women directors exploring the Seven Deadly Sins. (Images here: ) I love how we see Akerman attempting to wake up, while her life partner, Sonia Wieder-Atherton plays the cello intently and eventually necks a few vitamin pills, smokes a cigarette, shows us her gloriously disgusting dinner table full of old food and other detritus, attempts to think about the film she is meant to be shooting (on laziness!) - and then goes back to bed again: Good call I think, safe under the snuggly duvet! ‘Claire (Atherton) worked, while I stayed in bed’. Again, Akerman mines her own life for material with which to weave her fine cloth.“ (This clip will probably finish my channel off altogether by attracting a final strike - but I just cannot resist showing anything by Akerman - and it is International Women’s day!) (Chantal Akerman looked like this: ) aestheticoftheimage@ ____ COPYRIGHT ISSUES? - Please (!) - Before contacting youtube officially and requesting an official Takedown - which results in this Non-monetized channel getting a strike - (and potential oblivion) please consider contacting me personally: aestheticoftheimage@ and I will immediately remove the material. aestheticoftheimage@ _________ All clips uploaded solely for celebration and education.... All clips have currently been passed by youtube copyright software, but I appreciate that individual copyright holders may still wish to manually protect their copyright by issuing a retrospective takedown order. Before contacting youtube officially - which results in this channel getting a strike - please consider contacting me personally: aestheticoftheimage@ and I will immediately remove the material. (Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use“ for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, education or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.)