The Invisible Everywhere

A short essay film written and directed by Helene Klodawsky

Producer: Catbird Productions, 2019

The Invisible Everywhere uses participatory media to explore the contemporary care crisis. It is part of a web based project for the Gender, Migration and the Work of Care Project, University of Toronto.

There is a plethora of amateur and professionally produced social media on the subject of care, ranging from confessional to instructional and commercial. 

In The Invisible Everywhere, media taken out of its original context and juxtaposed in surprising ways, reveals the changing, contradictory ways we think about the work of care.  Care is something to be fit into people’s harried, over committed schedules.  Care companies, offshore recruitment networks, life-work balance experts, and even robotic innovation are seen as partners, and even replacements for humans in the delivery of essential but undervalued care. With searing reflections from experts such Ai-jen Poo and Ito Peng.