Mein Fenster (1979) User Reviews

Quite clever.

[planktonrules · 20 June 2012]

This is from a disc of art films by the Polish filmmaker, Zbig Rybczynski that is available from Netflix. However, as the films are very experimental, it's not the sort of thing the average viewer would watch in the first place.

Of the films on the disc, "Mein Fenster" (made in Austria--hence the German title), this is among the most enjoyable for most folks. It's a very clever little film consisting of a man talking on TV and on a table next to him is a bottle of liquid and a budgie in a cage. As the TV plays, the picture begins to slowly rotate--and so do the cage and bottle. It's not in perfect sync and the prior film on the disk (one without a title and NOT listed on IMDb) did the same thing but much better. Still, it's not at all boring and is well worth seeing.

360° turn

[Horst_In_Translation · 4/10 · 30 June 2015]

"My window" is a 2-minute short film by Polish director Zbigniew Rybczynski. He made this in his late 20s, roughly 5 years ago before hie Academy Award win. The story is very simple. We see a bird, a television image and the contents of a vine glass perform a 360° turn from start to finish of this movie. The television, the birdcage and the glass stay exactly the same. I have to say I enjoyed watching this, but it's a very simple idea actually and I have no real need to ever see it again. Still, it wasn't a bad short film by any means. Actually you could also interpret this movement as a clock. As soon as the turn is completed, the short film is over. Nice little idea by Rybczynski here and competent execution as always with him. Still just not interesting enough in my opinion. Good it only runs for 2 minutes.