Chantal Anne Akerman (June 6, 1950–October 5, 2015) was a Belgian film director, artist and professor of film at the City College of New York. Her best-known film is Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). According to film scholar Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Akerman's influence on womens' liberationist filmmaking and avant-garde cinema has been substantial.

I'm Hungry, I'm Cold is made in the midst of Akerman's most daring yet alluringly underseen decade; the 1980s, comprising of TV works like Letters Home, Family Business, Tell Me, personal self financed projects like Toute une nuit, the musical experiment; Golden Eighties and insightful documentaries like One Day Pina Asked…
This short in particular offers a unique, brief and rare insight into this time of creative experimentation which tangles many of Akerman's interests meanwhile furthering and playing with her style and observation in a haunting yet unforgettable way, this film certainly makes for a great middle part in the unofficial youths trilogy, starting with her first feature film; Je, Tu, Il, Elle (1974) and ending with Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the ’60s in Brussels (1994), each insights into not just the growth of one of the most important arthouse directors of all time but the decades in which they are made, there is truly no other cinema like Akerman's so enjoy her overlooked short masterpiece.

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