How do you behave just before you fall asleep and you need someone to hug you?

“Sonia travaille, Je reste au lit.”

In an exercise of ironic self-awareness, Chantal Akerman tries to cope with her tendency toward procrastination and laziness by making a film about laziness itself. This piece is part of a collective project in which seven women each make a short film about one of the deadly sins. While her lover Sonia is at work, Akerman falls into her usual procrastination — which she then tries to reverse by making a film about procrastination itself.

Butterfly as verb, Butterfly as birth control, Butterfly as precarious achievement, Butterfly as speed, Butterfly as sleeping dram, and someone to love in 157 years.

The monarch migration and an unearthed cassette tape correspondence form a storm speaking towards motherhood, loss, expectation, care and legacy.

Part of the Bestiaire trilogy — a series of short films focusing on animals — this short video features Marker’s beloved cat, Guillaume-en-Egypte, in his ‘most widely acclaimed’ screen role. As Marker recalls: “He was fond of Ravel (any cat is) but he had a special crush on Mompou. That day (a beautiful sunny day, I remember) I placed Volume I of the complete Mompou by Mompou on the CD player to please him ...”

For her 27th birthday, Lisa Steele made this work, which chronicles her passage through time. In the tape, she undresses, then reveals, touches, counts, dates, and recounts the story of every scar on her body.

In a small interior space where bodies constantly yearn for sleep, the filmmaker seeks in her beloved Henry something soft and tender to inhabit — some fur to retreat into. Between bedsheets and freckles, a declaration of love emerges — a fragile collage tracing a path between intimacy, vulnerability, and warmth. An ode to our captive pets, and to the intimate worlds where we learn to live and rest.