Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Minutes (1975)

16mm, color, sound, 10 minutes. The filmmaker performs her solitary act of cleaning. A static camera tightly frames the studio sink, dirty with paint and other residue while the artist engages in a concerted ritual of scrubbing and scraping … a treatise on the over-cleanliness of certain reductivist gestures in history of art making. (1975)

Released

1975-01-01

Runtime

10 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Coleen Fitzgibbon