Trending Popular Now playing Top rated Upcoming Genres Action Adventure Animation Comedy Crime Documentary Drama Family Fantasy History Horror Music Mystery Romance Science Fiction TV Movie Thriller War Western

Window Work

A woman drinks tea, washes a window, reads the paper: simple tasks that somehow suggest a kind of quiet mystery within and beyond the image. Sometimes one hears the rhythmic, pulsing symphony of crickets in a Baltimore summer night. Other times jangling toys dissolve into the roar of a jet overhead, or children tremble at the sound of thunder. These disparate sounds dislocate the space temporally and physically from the restrictions of reality. The small home-movie boxes within the larger screen are gestural forms of memory, clues to childhood, mnemonic devices that expand on the sense of immediacy in her “drama.” These miniature image-objects represent snippets of an even earlier media technology: film. In contrast to the real time video image, they feel fleeting, ephemeral, imprecise.

April 11, 2000
8 min
Mystery
Lynne Sachs
English
$0
$0
Released
Cast1 cast member
Crew1 crew member
Posters1 image