clean and pure
Director Ruth Schläpfer
Countries
Duration 57 min
Synopsis
Cleaning is an everyday Sisyphean task. But a look behind the war on dirt reveals a greater social and religious context. We meet a range of people whose lives revolve around cleaning: street sweepers, Christians, philosophers, Jews, cleaning ladies and Muslims, all challenge the value systems we use to structure our lives. There’s the theologian who ‘writes’ while cleaning lavatories, and the cleaning lady who muses about the shape of the toilet. By turns surprising and informative, earthy and profound, the various aspects of cleaning combine and recombine until preconceived ideas about a supposedly lowly job are flushed away.
Cleaning is an everyday Sisyphean task. But a look behind the war on dirt reveals a greater social and religious context. We meet a range of people whose lives revolve around cleaning: street sweepers, Christians, philosophers, Jews, cleaning ladies and Muslims, all challenge the value systems we use to structure our lives. There’s the theologian who ‘writes’ while cleaning lavatories, and the cleaning lady who muses about the shape of the toilet. By turns surprising and informative, earthy and profound, the various aspects of cleaning combine and recombine until preconceived ideas about a supposedly lowly job are flushed away.