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Title

Seven women, seven sins [motion picture] / Helke Sander Filmproduktion, Variety Motion pictures, Maxi Cohen, Chantal Akerman Filmproducktion, Valie Export Films, Eldorado Films, Ulrike Ottinger Filmproduktion in association with ZDF, Germany.

Publication

New York : Maxi Cohen, 1986.

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Additional Authors

• Cohen, Maxi.
• Gordon, Bette.
• Sander, Helke.
• Export, Valie.
• Akerman, Chantal.
• Gavron, Laurence, 1955-
• Ottinger, Ulrike, 1942-

Description

4 film reels (120 min.) : sd., col.; 16 mm.

Summary

This omnibus project bringing together the work of seven women directors from around the world was conceived in response to a question posed by the German Television Network, ZDF: What constitutes a deadly sin in this day and age, and how do you approach such a subject? 1) Gluttony (Voellerei? Futtern) by Helke Sander, West Germany. Eve discovers the rapture of the apple and offers it to Adam, thus committing the original sin. Told in studio-bound cartoon style, this tale serves as an allegory for the contemporary male/female relationship. 2) Greed (Pay to play) by Bette Gordon, U.S. Three women have a strange, claustrophobic encounter in the ladies room of a luxurious Manhattan hotel. Set in a "twilight zone" where objects bear a menacing aura, and seemingly harmless conversation carries a threatening subtext, this segment concerns greed, avarice and the victimization of women in a consumer society. 3) Anger by Maxi Cohen, U.S. Cohen put an ad in the Village Voice for angry people. After close to a hundred calls, she interviewed and selected a group of unusually and supremely angry people. 4) Sloth (Portrait d'une paresseuse) by Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France. Akerman pushes the phenomenon of laziness to its utmost. She tries to get out of bed to shoot this segment on sloth. 5) Lust (Ein perfektes Paar oder die unzucht Wechselt ihre haut) by Valie Export, Austria. Export's approach is translated in modern terms via a music video about sex and consumerism. 6) Envy (Il Maestro) by Laurence Gavron, France. Gavron demonstrates that jealous feelings are useless in this story of a man, the nephew of the theater director in a small town, who envies the work of the conductor, one of his uncle's employees. 7) Pride (Superbia) by Ulrike Ottinger, West Germany. An allegorical triumphant procession in operatic styles is intercut with modern military parades of every bizarre form. (Does not circulate)

Alternative Title

Seven deadly sins

Subject

• Feature films
• Experimental films
• Motion pictures > Germany
• Foreign films > Germany
• Sin
• Religion > Anecdotes

Note

• In English, French and German with English subtitles.

Credits (note)

• Directors, Helke Sander, Bette Gordon, Maxi Cohen, Chantal Akerman, Valie Export, Laurence Gavron, Ulrike Ottinger.

Performer (note)

• (Gluttony) Gabriela Hera, Michael Dick; (Greed) Suzanne Fletcher, Luis Guzman; (Sloth) Sonia Wieder Atherton, Chantal Akerman; (Lust) Susanne Widl, Alfred Neugebauer; (Envy) Ged Marion, Evelyne Didi; (Pride) Delphine Seyrig, Irm Hermann.

Title

Seven women, seven sins [motion picture] / Helke Sander Filmproduktion, Variety Motion pictures, Maxi Cohen, Chantal Akerman Filmproducktion, Valie Export Films, Eldorado Films, Ulrike Ottinger Filmproduktion in association with ZDF, Germany.

Imprint

New York : Maxi Cohen, 1986.

Credits

Directors, Helke Sander, Bette Gordon, Maxi Cohen, Chantal Akerman, Valie Export, Laurence Gavron, Ulrike Ottinger.

Cast

(Gluttony) Gabriela Hera, Michael Dick; (Greed) Suzanne Fletcher, Luis Guzman; (Sloth) Sonia Wieder Atherton, Chantal Akerman; (Lust) Susanne Widl, Alfred Neugebauer; (Envy) Ged Marion, Evelyne Didi; (Pride) Delphine Seyrig, Irm Hermann.

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Added Author

Cohen, Maxi.

Gordon, Bette.

Sander, Helke.

Export, Valie.

Akerman, Chantal.

Gavron, Laurence, 1955-

Ottinger, Ulrike, 1942-

Added Title

Seven deadly sins

Branch Call Number

M16 4035 S