The building continues
At Myrtle Court, people wake up and feed the animals and cook and mend what has broken. Some of them try to get through to one another. Their days go on between visits; a look through a window catches a fragment.
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Great Panes
Across the courtyard, a building is visible through a window. A light changes. Someone crosses a room. A dog waits at a door. A conversation begins after the viewer has looked away.
Great Panes is a stylized episodic series about the people in those apartments. Each household has its routines, relationships, animals, unfinished business, and private pressures. Returning to a window reveals what has changed.
Rain, curtains, telescope glass, distant windows, and the observer’s room are part of the view. Short scenes accumulate into a story about attachment, rivalry, care, secrecy, and the pleasure of watching something one cannot fully know.
The first household
Betty runs a late-night radio show from her apartment and maintains Simon, a domestic robot whose manufacturer has since shut down. Her family bought him after her husband died, so that she could remain at home; he breaks down often enough that she spends much of her time caring for him. Her daughter, who lives in the building, regards the machine with suspicion.
The wider cast
The other residents include the daughter and her husband, a middle-aged couple in the most colorful apartment on the facade, a family of three, and two people whose relationship was ending when the lockdown began, along with two dogs, two cats, and a bird. Betty and Simon are the first household in development.