# Maintenance Artist (2025)

> An incisive portrait of Mierle Laderman Ukeles, whose radical public art turns sanitation work and civic maintenance into a form of cultural practice.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/7435735

## Facts

- Runtime: 90 min
- Genres: Documentary
- Director: Toby Perl Freilich
- Cast: Mierle Laderman Ukeles
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36591399/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Mood: reflective, thoughtful, sincere, museum programming, educational viewing

## Movies like Maintenance Artist

- [Orozco the Embalmer (2001)](https://ember.film/movie/70543)
- [Bread and Roses (2000)](https://ember.film/movie/23609)
- [Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (2012)](https://ember.film/movie/59859)
- [Familiar Touch (2025)](https://ember.film/movie/5396698)
- [Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other (2025)](https://ember.film/movie/1214376)
- [I Am Greta (2020)](https://ember.film/movie/515407)
- [The Story of Art in Alaska (2025)](https://ember.film/movie/7461025)
- [The Gleaners and I (2000)](https://ember.film/movie/29148)
- [Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere (2025)](https://ember.film/movie/7433774)
- [Bill Cunningham New York (2011)](https://ember.film/movie/37774)

---

Site overview: https://ember.film/llms.txt