Two middle-aged women talk while cleaning hotel rooms and art spaces. They never meet on screen, but their conversations and thoughts on working conditions bring them closer together. Via two simultaneous videos, which document the nature of working as a cleaner, cleanliness itself emerges as a working condition. A comment on the relationship between art and labor. The story of two women whose hands have been, for years, soaked in bleach.
Ioanna Neophytou
Ioanna Neophytou is a visual artist, researcher and documentary filmmaker. She studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and at Paris 8, Vincennes —Saint Denis. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Aix-Marseille, école doctorale LESA. As a visual artist, she has participated in many exhibitions both in Greece and abroad, while her short documentaries have been presented in international festivals and exhibitions, receiving significant accolades. Her first film, Painting…, co-directed with Dimitris Stamatis, was awarded the Audience Award of the 20th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and the special committee prize at the 5th Peloponnese International Documentary Festival. Ever since she directed two more films, which received international distinctions.