Window, 1972, 8’28”, 35 mm
The film was constructed on the basis of a contrapuntal combination of image and sound recording. The recording of the image, giving the impression of a continuous recording of what was happening outside the window, was in fact an eight-time repetition of an approximately one-minute-long shot of a window filmed from inside the room (the kitchen of the artist’s former apartment). On the other hand, the soundtrack, not related to the image, was a recording of uniformly increasing, outside the frame sounds of manipulating a radio receiver or “playing on various objects”. The result was a juxtaposition of the continuity of the discontinuous image recording with the continuous but changing sound. The main tension of the film made with a static camera lay in the relation between what was seen in the still frame and what was expanded with sound outside the frame.
