Flixtheatre

Fannie's Film

1981 15 min 6.0

Overview

A 65-year-old cleaning woman for a professional dancers' exercise studio performs her job while telling us in voiceover about her life, hopes, goals, and feelings. A challenge to mainstream media's ongoing stereotypes of women of color who earn their living as domestic workers, this seemingly simple documentary achieves a quiet revolution: the expressive portrait of a fully realized individual.

Details

Status: Released
Release Date: 1981-01-01
Production: The National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Women's Interart Center