The Teacher looks out of a window at the snow and landscape. The snow is on trees, bushes, houses, cars-- it covers everything; it is a vast and supreme and undisturbed whiteness. Aside from the wind which has created snow drifts in various places, the snow simply lays. It is perfect. One witnessing this cannot differentiate between the roads and the fields because right now they are all the same.
The window the Teacher is looking out of is actually a door-- a backdoor. It is one large almost door-sized window in the door, but it is latticed, and so looks to be several smaller windows. The lattice work makes the door window appear to have 15 smaller windows, three across and five down. The Teacher is wearing a sweater cardigan and shorts, and as the camera pans out/back, we see some objects sitting on the table beside the teacher. There is a coffee cup, a teacup, a jar of sugar, an ashtray, some drug paraphernalia including a lighter, a spoon, another kind of pipe, a tattered copy of James Joyce short stories (including the one about the Dead), and the Teacher is holding a cigarette and smoking and observing the landscape. There is the faint sound of water dripping.
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Scenes of a Movie
Short StoryReading some interview with David Lynch he spoke of needing at least 70 scenes for a feature-length film. The idea here is to create scenes themselves, a scene of something that may or may not inadvertently or unconsciously develop character, theme...
