Portrait d’une paresseuse (Portrait of a Lazy Woman)
Chantal Akerman, 1986, DE, digital, sound, 8'
“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.
