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The National Gallery is collaborating with the London Film School on 'Transcriptions: LFS Shorts', an innovative new project which involves second term students producing short 3-4 minute films inspired by the Gallery’s collection as part of their course.

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From the film-maker:

The ambiguity of the painting is what inspired me – not knowing where or at what the woman’s gaze was fixed. The fact that the figure in this piece is deemed as a prostitute by art historians led me to think about a character working as a prostitute.
I tried to avoid creating a typical clichéd approach to the subject matter by infusing elements of both absurdity and romanticism in an attempt to create a dark fairytale about a single woman trying to support her family by any means possible.

Andrew Smith

A piece inspired by Italian, North, Woman at a Window, probably 1510-30