10° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Short Film Competition 1992
THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW
by Eric Mendelsohn
Country: USA
Year: 1992
Duration: 27'
Through an Open Window is the story of a woman whose carefully existence becomes nightmarish in the course of one summer afternoon. Anne Meara portrays a suburban housewife confronted by a seemingly harmless incident which conceals a terrifying potential.
"I wanted to tell a story that created a very definite mood, and where the incidents of the film help to support that mood. It is the kind of subject that no one will usually make a film about. In many ways, my film is very European in tone, not only because of its sense of solitude, but also because it demands the viewer's complete attention." (Eric Mendelsohn)
Biography
film director
Eric Mendelsohn
Eric Mendelsohn graduated from Suny College at Purchase in 1986. Eric began work as an assistant designer on numerous feature films including Woody Allen Alice and Shadow and Fog. His student film projects have won several awards including Best Dramatic Film at the 1990 Melbourne International Short Film Festival; Best Short Film at the 59th Annual American Film Festival. He is currently writing short stories and the script for his first feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Through an Open Window (1992).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Eric Mendelsohn.
Director of photography: Jeffrey Seckendorf.
Art director: Charles Kulzilski.
Editor: Jeo Furey.
Music: Frank Lewin.
Sound: Reilly Steele.
Cast and characters: Anne Meara (Madelaine Jason), Cynthia Nixon (Nancy Cooper), F. Murray Abraham (narratore), Frances Foster (Diane), Leslie Brett Daniels, Matthew Malloy, Grace Roberts.
Director of Production: Rocco Caruso.
Production company: Caruso/Mendelsohn Productions, 375 Greenwich Street, Suite 514, New York, NY 10013, tel. +1-2129414036, fax +1-2129413997.
Foreign sales agent: Talpestry International, 920 Broadway Street, New York, NY 10010, tel. +1-2126776007, fax +1-2124738164.
Director of photography: Jeffrey Seckendorf.
Art director: Charles Kulzilski.
Editor: Jeo Furey.
Music: Frank Lewin.
Sound: Reilly Steele.
Cast and characters: Anne Meara (Madelaine Jason), Cynthia Nixon (Nancy Cooper), F. Murray Abraham (narratore), Frances Foster (Diane), Leslie Brett Daniels, Matthew Malloy, Grace Roberts.
Director of Production: Rocco Caruso.
Production company: Caruso/Mendelsohn Productions, 375 Greenwich Street, Suite 514, New York, NY 10013, tel. +1-2129414036, fax +1-2129413997.
Foreign sales agent: Talpestry International, 920 Broadway Street, New York, NY 10010, tel. +1-2126776007, fax +1-2124738164.
