Excerpt from "Restoring the Appearance to Order in 12 min." (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.
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