Exposed! What people do in the privacy of their very own homes is put on display for all to see in Adele Horne‘s very dirty movie, Maintenance. Horne’s subjects do it all: Scrubbing, dusting, sweeping, mopping. No, those aren’t euphemisms. Maintenance exposes the private act of cleaning in an entirely engrossing way.
Horne’s use of single, long takes documenting the cleaners’ actions seems indebted to the work of James Benning, who even appears in one of the segments. (Both are faculty members at the California Institute of the Arts.)
But, Maintenance also has something of a Hollis Frampton vibe to it, especially in the way she follows each documentary vignette with an on-screen text monologue of each cleaner. This gives the film a narrative vibe that it wouldn’t have otherwise, which is entirely not similar to, but feels vaguely reminiscent of Frampton films like Nostalgia or Poetic Justice.
Horne’s use of single, long takes documenting the cleaners’ actions seems indebted to the work of James Benning, who even appears in one of the segments. (Both are faculty members at the California Institute of the Arts.)
But, Maintenance also has something of a Hollis Frampton vibe to it, especially in the way she follows each documentary vignette with an on-screen text monologue of each cleaner. This gives the film a narrative vibe that it wouldn’t have otherwise, which is entirely not similar to, but feels vaguely reminiscent of Frampton films like Nostalgia or Poetic Justice.
- 11/8/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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