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Maintenance Artist

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Maintenance Artist is the first feature documentary about this revolutionary public artist. Mierle Laderman Ukeles, inspired by Marcel Duchamp, pioneered the notion that routine maintenance — from changing diapers to picking up city trash to caring for the earth — could be acts of performance art.

With never-before-seen archival footage, Maintenance Artist tells a story of essential workers and radical contemporary art set during the social and artistic upheavals of the last half century. Penetrating, provocative, funny, and deeply moving, Maintenance Artist fills a glaring cultural gap and heralds Ukeles’ call for a Maintenance Revolution.

Toby Perl Freilich is an American documentary filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter. Her work explores history, culture, and social issues, with a particular focus on personal stories, questions of memory, and social change. Her documentary approach is both rigorous and sensitive, with a strong commitment to meaningful storytelling.

We present an art film every month in collaboration with the International Festival of Films on Art (Le FIFA), an eclectic event that’s always appreciated.

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