Window (1964)

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior scene The zoom lens rips pulling depth planes apart and slapping them together contracting and expanding in concurrence with camera movements to impart a terrific apparentmotion to the complex of the objectforms pictured on the horizontalvertical screen its axis steadied by the audiences sense of gravity The cameras movements in being transferred to objects tend also to be greatly magnified instead of the camera the adjacent building turns About four years of studying the windowcomplex preceded the afternoon of actual shooting a true instance of cinematic actionpainting The film exists as it came out of the camera barring one mechanically necessary midreel splice