HD Video 06.55 min Director Steinbock Cinematographer Martin Munch Editor Mikkel Blaabjerg Poulsen Music Martin Hviid Cast Josefine, Peter Lydholm
Steinbock's
artistic methods of dealing with the balance between the human individuals and
the categorized are clearly emerged in 'House Without Windows' where a blind
man and a female sex worker meet in a hotel room. The blind person and the sex
worker represent different categories in terms of identity, but in this
arranged – yet also unchoreographed – encounter, they clearly emerge as human
individuals.The
observer follows the anticipatory preparations, the bouquet of flowers, the
handling of the cash on the nightstand, both symbolically laden in terms of
romantic and sexual exchanges. Then follows the tactile encounter between a man
and a woman, tentative touch and hands that trace the curves of bodies. Blind
people see with their hands whenever they meet other people. Lovers see with
their hands, with their entire bodies, as it were. This is reflected in the way
in which the film uses the body as a whole to tell the story of what it means
to be human. Bringing the idea of how blind people predominantly use their
sense of touch as a means of perception into the erotic sphere makes it
accessible to anyone. In this paradox lies the attraction of the film in terms
of its generated meaning. In all of these introverted, erotically laden images
lies the aesthetic indulgence of the work. With pangs of vulnerability, the
camera conveys a slow, gestured encounter and a tentative dance around the
entwined relationship between power and tenderness and the inescapable human
roleplaying that reaches into even the most intimate of situations.
