Window Work (movie)

Window Work (movie)

  • User score: 4
  • Production country: United States of America
  • Producer: Lynne Sachs
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release date: 4/11/2000
  • Run time: 8 min.

Movie description

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.

Actors

Lynne Sachs

Lynne Sachs

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