The Woman in the House

Year: 1942

Runtime: 11 mins

Language: English

Director: Sammy Lee

Drama

The short explores anthropophobia, the fear of people, through Catherine Starr’s life. After a 1901 argument, her fiancé leaves for the Boer War and later dies of malaria, leaving her feeling guilty. She isolates herself in her coastal home for forty years, receiving groceries unseen. The September 1941 Nazi bombing forces her to confront the outside world.

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