The Song of the Shirt

The Song of the Shirt (1979)

January 1st, 19792h 9min

Documentary
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Overview

Song tells the story of the women who worked in Victorian London's clothing sweatshops, eschewing a conventional narrative in favour of a series of still photographs and acted reconstructions to show that this story has been rewritten/written-over many times before.


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