The Song of the Shirt
An astonishing essay film about women workers in nineteenth century London. This feminist tale about the origins of the welfare state takes the form of a layered, polymorphous documentary using a proliferation of screens, overhead projection of texts and images, and distanced acting. The back-and-forth between different places, different times and information highlights the contradictions specific to the labour market and produces a reinvention of women’s past. The combination of relentless political content and a disjointed, disturbing form makes “The Song of the Shirt” stand out from its contemporaries, and from our contemporaries too… A lesson in history and in filmmaking.
Federico Rossin
Cinema historian, independent programmer
- Year 1979
- Pays United-Kingdom
- Durée 135
- Producteur Film and History Project
- Langue English
- Sous-titres French
- Résumé court An astonishing feminist essay film from the 1970s about women workers in the 19th century.
- Médiathèque 1
- Programmateur Federico Rossin|Cinema historian, freelance curator;
An astonishing essay film about women workers in nineteenth century London. This feminist tale about the origins of the welfare state takes the form of a layered, polymorphous documentary using a proliferation of screens, overhead projection of texts and images, and distanced acting. The back-and-forth between different places, different times and information highlights the contradictions specific to the labour market and produces a reinvention of women’s past. The combination of relentless political content and a disjointed, disturbing form makes “The Song of the Shirt” stand out from its contemporaries, and from our contemporaries too… A lesson in history and in filmmaking.
Federico Rossin
Cinema historian, independent programmer
- Year 1979
- Pays United-Kingdom
- Durée 135
- Producteur Film and History Project
- Langue English
- Sous-titres French
- Résumé court An astonishing feminist essay film from the 1970s about women workers in the 19th century.
- Médiathèque 1
- Programmateur Federico Rossin|Cinema historian, freelance curator;
