Nightcleaners Part 1
Berwick Street Film Collective
1975 - Royaume-Uni - Noir & Blanc - 90'
Photography : Humphry Trevelyan, Mary Kelly, James Scott, Marc Karlin
Production : Berwick Street Film Collective
Berwick Street Film Collective
1975 - Royaume-Uni - Noir & Blanc - 90'
Nightcleaners Part 1 is a documentary about the campaign to unionise the women who cleaned office blocks at night and who were being victimised and underpaid. Intending at the outset to make a campaign film, the Collective was forced to turn to new forms in order to represent the forces at work between the cleaners, the Cleaner’s Action Group and the unions – and the complex nature of the campaign itself. The result is an intensely self-reflexive film, which implicated both the filmmakers and the audience in the processes of precarious, invisible labour.
Photography : Humphry Trevelyan, Mary Kelly, James Scott, Marc Karlin
Production : Berwick Street Film Collective