Color Schemes

While a washing machine's primary function is to clean and spin-dry clothes, it can also be interpreted as a metaphor for purification, depersonalization, and oppression.  The film satirically uses the process of washing clothes as a metaphor for the American "melting pot," symbolizing an attempt to homogenize and assimilate all ethnic groups. This video installation, the director's first after moving to the US, combines experimental elements and performance art. It was exhibited as an installation at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and is considered a representative work from the early pre-internet era.