Toil of Three Cities: Liebesmüh
Shot in New York, London and Berlin, this experimental documentary-performance-narrative-videofable tells of an artist struck by the extreme physical exertion of ordinary workmen. She seeks meaning in her own life by searching for reasons behind their 'backbreaking work for the pleasure of others.' To strengthen her own body and open her heart she practices yoga, but feeling inadequate to the task,begins a quest to find a guru-worker to answer why they work so hard. Arrested for her own impurities, in jail she meets 12 hard-working prostitutes who open her heart. Then 4 little girls show us what is and isn't valued as labor in contemporary society. At end, the constructionworker's wisdom provides insight that only exisst in Rosenthal's absurdist universe, telling much about our own.
