44 min., 2018

Filmmaker Lynne Sachs and playwright Lizzie Olesker bring us into New York City's laundromats and the experiences of the people who work there. Turning a lens onto the intimate labor of doing laundry in the city's changing neighborhoods, The Washing Society focuses on working lives at the intersection of gender, immigration, and history. Interweaving documentary and narrative elements into a visual space between the observed and the re-enacted, the film creates a dream-like yet hyper-real portrayal of laundry workers, past and present.