Conor Bateman
October 20, 2017 — By Conor Bateman

All That Passes By Through A Window That Doesn’t Open

A review of Martin DiCicco’s debut feature documentary for 4:3.

All That Passes By Through A Window That Doesn’t Open

Though not an exacting portrait of labour or regional conflict, All That Passes by Through a Window That Doesn’t Open uses its elision of history as an effective prompt. The floating voiceover testimony from workers on both sides emphasises the ruptures between past and present, landscape and individual, and the reliance on striking wide compositions throughout sets up another profound disconnect; the film’s shrewd final shot positions us as helpless onlookers, watching the landscape pass by, of course, through a train window that doesn’t open.