Movie Details
Theatrical Release:August 9th, 1991
Original Language:English
Rear Window (1991)
10 minAug 9th, 1991
A view from a Brooklyn apartment sublimates Hitchcocks voyeurism into a frenzied engagement with the visible The film varies exposure or racks focus so that the flickering spatially ambiguous patterns that press the limits of the frame momentarily dissolve themselves as tree branches or a fire escape or a shadow caught on the screen of someones laundry rippling in the breeze I cupped one of my hands in front of the camera lens and attempted to make tactile to myself light color and image Gehr explains in his notes linking the film to his fathers death and calling it a hopeless attempt to render the ephemeral tangible J Hoberman The Village Voice
DirectorErnie Gehr
