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Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

Ventanas al interior

English translation:

Windows looking in

Added to glossary by James A. Walsh
Sep 17, 2012 13:41
11 yrs ago
Spanish term

Ventanas al interior

Spanish to English Art/Literary Cinema, Film, TV, Drama Documentary Title
Hi all,

This is the title of a feature-length documentary about 5 political prisoners (ETA) in jail in the Basque Country. The original title is in Basque with this Spanish title in parenthesis. I'm currently using "Views from the Inside", but not sure about "views" here and would appreciate some other angles on it.

Context:

"SINOPSIS
Cinco directores retratan a cinco presos políticos vascos. Una jóven cuenta los días que faltan para que la detengan. Un hombre vuelve a la sociedad tras 17 años encarcelado. Una madre graba en 125 cintas de casette todas las conversaciones telefónicas que ha mantenido con su hija presa. Un intelectual, catedrático de periodismo, se busca a sí mismo en la soledad de la celda. Un ex-dirigente de ETA se reencuentra con un amigo íntimo de su juventud, convertido ahora en cineasta. "Ventanas al interior" son cinco historias, contadas en minúsculas, buscando la persona que se esconde tras los barrotes, tras los acontecimientos, tras los titulares."

Going into UK English. Thanks.
Proposed translations (English)
3 Windows looking in
4 Looking Through the window/s
4 Views to the inside
4 Windows on life inside
4 Looking in
4 inside, looking out/incacerated visions
4 A view from within
4 Looking Within
4 As Seen From the Inside
3 Windows on to the Inside
3 Insider views
2 A view inside

Discussion

James A. Walsh (asker) Sep 17, 2012:
@David and Kate Meant to say appreciate your comments re "on the outside looking in" - totally agree.
James A. Walsh (asker) Sep 17, 2012:
Goodness me... So much to choose from! º_º
James A. Walsh (asker) Sep 17, 2012:
@Everyone: some more context I'm overwhelmed by all the discussion and suggestions this has prompted - thanks, folks! Just thought I'd post a bit more context. The translation is actually an interview with the documentary makers to be published in a magazine. Later on it mentions:

"¿QUÉ HEMOS APRENDIDO HASTA AHORA?

Después de hacer los documentales "Itsasoaren Alaba" [Daughter of the Sea] y "Sagarren Denbora" [Apple Season], la mirada se nos quedó congelada; no se puede estar mirando de reojo durante mucho tiempo. La tentación es una amiga cercana y no hemos podido resistirnos a ella: cárceles, presos… No sólo cuerpos; ahí dentro también hay personas, voluntades, esperanzas… y hemos iniciado el viaje en busca de todo eso. “Barrura begiratzeko leihoak” (Ventanas al interior) es el fruto de ese viaje. Cinco ventanas al interior. Al interior de las prisiones. Al interior las personas. Al interior de uno mismo."

And then it goes on to detail each of the 5 stories...
Kate Major Patience Sep 17, 2012:
David is totally right: I was thinking there was something that bothered me about that one, and that's it: the use of that expression would be something like "I always felt like I was on the outside looking in".
David Ronder Sep 17, 2012:
The problem with "on the outside looking in" is that it is a metaphor of exclusion, when in this case the excluded are by definition on the inside.

I mean people are usually on the outside of some establishment or clique, looking in.
James A. Walsh (asker) Sep 17, 2012:
@Ana, Ion and Denise Excellent observations there, thank you! "On the outside looking in" sounds good to me.
Denise Phelps Sep 17, 2012:
Ion's last comment brings to mind a very common set phrase in English which might serve your purposes: 'on the outside looking in' (https://www.google.es/search?q="on the outside looking in "&...
Ion Zubizarreta Sep 17, 2012:
"Views from the Inside" sounds good, but this title gives more prominence to the prisoners, while both the Spanish and Basque titles give a more active part to the viewers. As Ana mentions, the point of view is from the outside looking in.
Ana Gutierrez Sep 17, 2012:
Hi Ion In the Spanish version 'ventanas al interior', the point of view is from outside looking in, is it the same in Basque?
Ion Zubizarreta Sep 17, 2012:
The Basque tittle "Barrura begiratzeko leihoak" uses the term "windows" as well (lehioak).
James A. Walsh (asker) Sep 17, 2012:
Basque title is: "Barrura Begiratzeko Leihoak"
James A. Walsh (asker) Sep 17, 2012:
Hi Kate, I haven't really been given any instructions to speak of, only that it's needed for tomorrow lunchtime... Don't think I'm gonna worry too much about sticking to window aspect. Here's a trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4C8wL5cA1U
As far as I can see it's just 5 stories from the "inside" (ie, prison)
Ana Gutierrez Sep 17, 2012:
Original title in Basque Maybe you can post the original in Basque? We don't know how close/far the Basque and the Spanish titles are, do we? That might give you a clue about how to approach the translation into English.
Kate Major Patience Sep 17, 2012:
Hi James I was wondering how closely you want to stick to the original (or how closely your client wishes to stick to the original) because there are plently of options if you don't have to worry too much about the window aspect (i.e. if there is a lot of window imagery throughout the works or in the visual materials that'll influence your decision, evidently). If you don't have to worry about windows, then perhaps something like "insider perspectives" or "inside/insider views" might work? Reading the context you provide, that's what we're talking about, right?

Proposed translations

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Windows looking in

if you decide to keep to the 'windows' metaphor, this is another possibility: a similar idea is used for this exhibition, which then makes the connection with looking within people:

http://www.knowledge.ca/program/a-window-looking-in
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you very much, Lucy, and everyone else for your valuable help with this. Much appreciated! :)"
21 mins

Windows on to the Inside

"Windows Overlooking the Inside"

"Inside Looks"

:)

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Espero que te ayude o que te dispare nuevas ideas.
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24 mins

Looking Through the window/s

One option.
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42 mins

A view inside

Just tossing my hat in the ring....
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48 mins

Views to the inside

Worded in the same vein as "Views to the valley".
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53 mins

Windows on life inside

Excellent discussion here. KudoZ at its best.

This suggestion is really designed as a way of keeping "windows", which is not essential but would be nice, considering that the word is explicitly mentioned in the Basque and Spanish versions, while (hopefully) keeping it reasonably idiomatic. You do talk about windows on things: windows on the world, windows on life; but "windows on the inside" is no good, because that would mean that the windows are situated inside something, and "windows onto the inside" doesn't quite do it for me. But "windows on life inside" might be a solution.

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OK, I can't quote you an instance of "windows on life inside", but "windows on life" is very common, and so is "life inside" referring to prison (though it can refer to other things, of course). Not for nothing is the UK prison information website called "Inside Information", with an online newspaper called "Inside Time":
http://www.insidetime.org/info-home.asp
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1 hr

Looking in

Seeing as there's a ring, this is my hat.

I think it's a shame not to use "windows" and also "inside", as that's a synonym for prison, but I do feel this has a documentary ring to it.

There's also a satisfying word play: apart from the literal sense of looking in to prison, to look in is to visit (informally) as the documentary makers are doing here, and to look into something is of course to investigate it.
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1 hr

inside, looking out/incacerated visions

"inside, looking out" is good because "inside" is also UK English for being in prison.

The 2nd take "incacerated visions" is if you want to go for the psychology of the thing,
but I reckon that might be too airy-fairy

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"Incarcerated", sorry, typo.
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1 hr

A view from within

My 2 cents
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6 hrs

Looking Within

My two cent's worth.
Not the snappiest of titles, or one that pinpoints what the documentary is about. It almost begs for a second phrase/subtitle.
Went for within because I'm assuming there's some inner reflection going on in what the prisoners say, so it covers that element along with within prison walls/bars and within the events that put them there.
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1 hr

Insider views

Insider views on our prisons and criminal justice system | Page 3
notesfromaninsider.com/page/3/Cached
22 Mar 2012 – This often happens when people are in prison or on probation but Casey manages to make it all about her. So much for the wonderful therapy ...

An Insider's Views Of Women's Prison .
news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19880814...
An Insider's Views Of Women's Prison . THEY ALWAYS CALL-US LADIES: Stories From Prison. By Jean Harris. Scribners. 276 Pages. 18.95. By JOHN ...

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Given the further context, this may be an option:

"FIVE (OUTSIDE) PERSPECTIVES ON THE INSIDE: THE INSIDE OF PRISONS, THE INSIDE OF PEOPLE, THE INSIDE OF ONESELF"

Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space ...
books.google.com › Architecture › General
To be outside allows one a fresh ***perspective on the inside.*** In these essays, philosopher Elizabeth Grosz explores the ways in which two disciplines that are ...

An Outsider's **Perspective on the Inside of*** North Korea - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l174VdXhnACached
13 Oct 2007 – InTimeTV Eye on Harvard interview of Walter Keats 'AB67 who is one of the few Americans who has been able to regularly visit North Korea.

DFWiRadio Show Hosts - DFWiRadio
dfwiradio.weebly.com/our-hosts.htmlCached
The show allows people to truly get an **outside perspective on the inside*** of someones life. Because of his persistence and open communication, Andy has ...

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Another idea:

"AN OUTSIDE LOOK AT THE INSIDE"

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Cookstown B.E. Racing pits at the 2012 Isle of Man TT | Digital Press ...
digitalpressimages.photoshelter.com/image/I0000D5UAutphL4UCached
29 May 2012 – ***An outside look at the inside*** of an Isle of Man TT race team. The paddocks around the racing world are full of similar scenes.
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6 hrs

As Seen From the Inside

another option. - Some examples:
China's Journey towards Capitalism: As Seen from the Inside. Generated documentation ». Related links ».
Election campaign as seen from the inside - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v...5...
Insider Trading, As Seen From The Inside : Planet Money : NPR
www.npr.org/.../everybody-is-a-scum... - 20 Jun 2011 – This week's New Yorker has a long article on a recent insider-trading case, and on the broader issue of prosecuting crimes in the finance ...;
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