The Washing Society + Clotheslines

“Sachs’s The Washing Society, co-directed with playwright Lizzie Olesker, uses a combination of interviews, re-enactments, and patient observation to pay lyric homage to the little-acknowledged but essential labor of dealing with dirty laundry, as it occurs every day in New York City’s laundromats. Screening with Roberta Cantow’s feminist forebear Clotheslines, a film that takes laundry seriously as a form of folk art, a fraught social signifier, and a lens for women to reflect on the joys, pains, and ambivalences of household chores.”  (Metrograph)

Plus
A Month of Single Frames (made with and for Barbara Hammer)

Co-directors Olesker and Sachs will participate in a post-screening conversation with special guest feminist scholar Silvia Federici, a longtime advocate for the recognition of unwaged labor and a founder of the Wages for Housework movement. 

https://nyc.metrograph.com/film/film/2782/washing-society-clothesline

Films by Lynne Sachs

Dec. 10, 11 & 12, 2021

Metrograph Theater

7 Ludlow Street

Tickets on sale now here.

Masks and vaccination proof required  https://metrograph.com/visiting-guidelines/