This project was based off the framework of the 1954 classic film "Rear Window" by Alfred Hitchcock. Using the word "gaze" as the core challenge of the studio, the students were tasked with watching the film and studying one of the various neighbors who took residence behind the apartment of L.B. Jefferies (played by James Stewart). Nearly the entire film takes place from a single placement in the world of the film; from the eyes of the crippled, wheelchair-ridden, professional photographer L.B. Jefferies. 

Stitching together the various glimpses into the apartment of Miss Lonelyhearts from the perched perspective offered from Jefferies apartment, it was possible to get an introduction to the texture of her life. To see how she furnished her life, how she prepares her meals, opens her mail, or welcomes over dates.

In the film, Miss Lonelyhearts' upstairs neighbor, Mr. Thorwald, is suspected by Jefferies to have murdered his wife in the middle of the night. Taking her diced-up body out of his apartment, one meat-filled briefcase at a time, Jefferies watches on unsure of what the truth is, but suspicious of the man all the while.

This project suspects that Miss Lonelyhearts had a role in the murder and disposal of the body. Given her widowed status one wonders how she affords her apartment, so using the provided information gathered from our own gaze, a fiction was crafted using the unseen gaze. Perhaps Miss Lonelyhearts supplements her rent through laundering the clothing of the adjacent apartments. Using a series of laundry shoots which all lead to the basement beneath her apartment, her neighbors drop their dirty rags and clothes down, where Miss Lonelyhearts then washes them, dries them, and then places them cleaned and fresh in a designated cubby in the hallway outside her apartment.

After months of eyeing one another in the hall of the apartment, through promises of companionship and eloping, Mr. Thorwald (the murdering salesman) gets Miss Lonelyhearts to discretely reduce Mrs. Thorwald to "briefcase-sized" pieces so that Mr. Thorwald can dispose of his mess and bring them together at last.

Driven by her regret for helping Thorwald Miss Lonelyhearts nearly takes her own life before she is inspired to take on the beauty of this life after hearing the composition of the pianist across the courtyard.