THE INVISIBLE HAND
A film by Sky Olson
2021 | 45 mins | Digital Video | Color | 25fps
The Invisible Hand (2021) is an experimental documentary that foregrounds the usually invisible labor of a government building’s cleaning crew. The film follows the cleaners of the Gouvernement aan de Maas in Maastricht, Netherlands, the site of the treaty that established the European Union in 1992. Created improvisationally and in collaboration with several of the cleaners—Abdul, Esther, Irene, Josje, Kiona, Peter, and Velasca—the film captures their daily routines as they polish the building’s marble and glass surfaces and tidy up after politicians and office staff.
