WINDOW WORK

by Lynne SACHS
2000 / Video / color / sound / 1S / 9' 00




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. 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.

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distribution format Digital file on server (FHD)
screen 16/9 (single screen)
speed 29,976 fps
sound sound
original language English
rental fee 42,00 €