Rooms

The film begins in the dark of a narrow hallway. The camera pans and George W. Johnson´s tinny laughter from the “Laughing Song,” recorded in 1898 as part of the Edison brown wax series, lies over the images like a cynical commentary. A cut leads from the corridor into the bedroom where there is a transistor radio next to a bed with a flattened bedspread. In the stairway, the light flickers, gentle droning mixes into the sinister music, fragments of a sentimental melody seep into the soundtrack. A concrete housing complex is visible through the living room curtain.
Rooms...