Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Minutes

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)

• Release date
• January 1, 1975
• Runtime
• 10 min
• Director
• Coleen Fitzgibbon