Window Work (2000)

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.

Released April 11, 2000 8 min None+

Genres: Mystery, Short

Keywords: mdblist.one-actor, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.experimental-short, imdb.performance-art

Watch Providers: Fandor

Country: United States
Production Country: United States
Languages: No Language, English