I've recently become nearly convinced that certain films, and The House (1997) by Šarūnas Bartas is one, cannot effectively be the object of in-depth criticism using words. These largely imagistic creations, most often with no dialogue, demand that a critic create their own unified film using their own imagery and associations without dialogue to access the original work's intention and its eventual effect upon the viewer, be they antagonist or advocate, at least in particular subjects of the host film's examination. You may think of it as a living virus which embeds within the world of the first film and reprograms it's cinematic machinery to create dozens of new audio and visual ideas, images, forms, motions, compositions, palettes, timings, cuts,…