Director: Hrabba Gunnarsdóttir (IS)
Genre: Documentary
Iceland, 2001 / 20 min (DV), colour & sound

The Film
The personal documentary is about washing, war and electricity in Beirut, and about the aftermath of war.In an unanticipated happening, the Icelandic filmmaker Hrabba Gunnarsdóttir and the Lebanese human rights advocate Tina Naccache »collide« in Tina’s Beirut apartment on washing day. Plagued by the lack of water and electricity, as a result of the wars, Tina describes the gymnastics of doing the laundry. As we watch Tina scrub the filmmaker’s pants and intimately move through the privacy of her home, her non-conformist and articulate views on feminism, war and servitude are revealed. With most of the footage shot in less than two hours, Who Hangs the Laundry? communicates clearly, yet in a raw manner, an experience and outlook on war.

Hrabba Gunnarsdóttir
Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir is a native of Iceland. She has been working in film since the late eighties. Besides directing, Hrabba has worked as a cinematographer and editor on films by Lynn Hershman, Tom Shepard, Mark Huestis and others. Hrabba's films include "Corpus Camera" 1999; "Who Hangs the Laundry", 2002, "Straight Out", 2003, “Alive in Limbo”, 2004.