House Movie

“House Movie” is a direct autobiography, with events interpreted as they were in progress. It is about living intimately with another person, in a rented house which never becomes home, due to an unavoidable separation. At times the camera almost takes the point of view of the architecture, as witness to the kind of transient emotions common to houses like this. Using a Rachmaninoff excerpt, the film is edited symphonically, with theme and subordinate theme, development and re-capitulation, echoed in the recurring visual motifs and rhythmic cutting. “The extravagant camera movement that marks ‘House Movie’ is not so much lyrical as deterministic; the camera, though curious, has somewhere to go and is content to move forward without prejudice to the reality beyond its own set course. This sense of being in a world in which the familiar exists to be rediscovered and reexperienced, comes through in the best of these ‘home movies’… Films like ‘House Movie’ permanently deepen commonplace immediate experiences…” – Ian Birnie, Independent Views, Art Gallery of Ontario