"Clotheslines" dir. by Roberta Cantow (1982)
Recommended by even*cleveland
A half-hour of women talking about what it means to do the laundry, a task that never ends. A pungent and poignant testimonial to care, frustration, satisfaction, obligation, gender + society.
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@ginnybranch
This feels timely
@mostofall
This looks fascinating! My mom and her sisters have been reading their grandmother’s daily diaries and laundry (particularly curtains bc of the coal burning stove) is a constant refrain.
@evencleveland
It's very moving, because the 21 women speaking all have strong and different feelings about it, and Cantow filmed it at a moment when laundry (and womens' lives) were changing—washing machines and dryers becoming more affordable. Line-hung laundry was becoming a thing of the past, esp. in cities.
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