Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Minutes (1975)

Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Minutes (1975) poster

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)

Director: Coleen Fitzgibbon
Runtime: 10 min
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Original Language: en
More Films by Director: Coleen Fitzgibbon

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What is Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Minutes about?
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)
Who directed Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Minutes?
Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Minutes was directed by Coleen Fitzgibbon.
How long is Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Minutes?
Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 Minutes has a runtime of 10m (10 minutes).