Backyard Economy I

Backyard Economy I

Martha Rosler 
1974, 3:26 min, color, silent, Super 8mm film on video

Description

Set in the arch-American "home movie" context of a sunny suburban yard, Rosler's early Super-8 film Backyard Economy I documents the products of mundane domestic chores. Silently depicting scenes of laundry hanging out to dry in a suburban backyard, Rosler points up the labor that allows leisure and interrogates its underlying "economy."

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Super-8 Shorts
1974, 14:50 min, color, silent