Constructed entirely from computer screenshots, SCREENWINDOW chronicles a personal, three-year obsession with a web cam of the Empire State Building.

Director:   Amy Youngs  (their other films)
Producer:	Genre:  Documentary
Country:  USA	Copyright Year:  2003
Original Format:  DV	Color Type:  Color
Sound Type:  Magnetic Stereo	Length:  00:03:24
Original Language:  English	Subtitle Language:  None
Label:   Blackchair Collection
Other Info: This video chronicles my personal relationship with a web cam; the live, 24-hour web cam of the Empire State Building in New York.* In November 2000, I began taking pictures of the image I saw on my computer screen. I did not use a camera, but instead took thousands of images using the screen shot function built into the operating system of a personal computer. The still shots are compiled into a video diary of the distant building in an internet browser window, as it sits on my computer desktop. The ability to experience, capture, "own" and care about the remote building kept me engaged. As I sat in a windowless computer lab for hours on end, I came to understand that the ability to see the weather and natural light patterns reflected in this icon of human engineering was what was so compelling to me. Perhaps even more compelling is the ability to see it through someone else's camera - a person I have never met in a space I have no physical knowledge of. At times, the existence of life in the same room as the camera is revealed through the close observation of the web cam, shadows, handwriting on a window and jogs to the camera.

Upcoming Screenings
Venue/Organization	City	Country	Date

Screening History
Venue/Organization	City	Country	Date
Central Cinema	Seattle	USA	2007-11-28	Event Details
Central Cinema	Seattle	USA	2007-03-14	Event Details
Nemo Festival	Paris	France	2005-04-06	Event Details
Axiom Theatre	Houston	USA	2005-02-04	Event Details
Neuer Standort	Vienna	Austria	2004-11-25	Event Details
SF Camerawork	San Francisco	USA	2004-11-09	Event Details
111 Minna Gallery	San Francisco	USA	2004-09-27	Event Details
Axiom Theatre	Houston	USA	2004-09-17	Event Details

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Compilations containing this film
	Independent Exposure Exhibition Independent Exposure: Festival Nemo 2005 (MC-343)	2005	Program available for theatrical exhibition
	Independent Exposure Exhibition Monument Recall (MC-309) Public Memory and Public Spaces	2004	Program available for theatrical exhibition
	Independent Exposure Exhibition Autumnal Edition 2004 (MC-253)	2004	Program available for theatrical exhibition