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Window Work (2000)
Directed by Lynne Sachs
Mystery · 8m
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.
Cast
Lynne Sachs
Crew
- Director
- Lynne Sachs
Details
- Release date
- 2000-04-11
- Runtime
- 8m
- Genres
- Mystery
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United States of America