"7 Sins",
2010, 60 min,
documentary film
Director and
scriptwriter: Kristina Inčiūraitė
Producer: Živilė
Gallego
DOP: Rolandas
Leonavičius
Composer: Titas Petrikis
Sound recordist:
Algimantas Apanavičius
Sound director: Darius Vaičiulis
Editors: Kristina
Inčiūraitė, Ričardas Matačius
Post-production: Audrius Naujalis
In the film,
seven sports women who live in seven different Lithuanian
cities speak about their opinions on the ‘seven deadly sins’
(Sloth, Pride, Wrath, Gluttony, Lust, Envy, and Greed) from a
contemporary perspective. The sports women are metaphorically
locked in a set of duels, reflective of the competitive
nature of the sports they pursue, and in an inner-fight
between their Manichean personalities that entwine – darkness
and light. This duality, and battle, is a constant in both
art and life. The documentary explores and portrays a contemporary
heroine, and heroism, pitched against the interior legend of
persistent work and practice.
In the context of current socio-economic crisis, this documentary
was inspired by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s 1933
ballet
chanté, a ballet with
singing, “The Seven Deadly Sins” (“Die sieben Todsünden”), which
portrays two sisters (that is representative of a dual personality)
who travel to seven different cities in search of their fortune
during the Great Depression.
The film has a performative character as the heroines reconstruct
social roles through their set of duels. They represent an active –
not passive – and volitional “other”. 7
Sins deconstructs,
via positive identification with its feminine subjects, the
Judeo-Christian sinfulness of the female body.
