 Antovo
2004, 8:51 min. (video, color, sound)
"Without knowing where we are, we can see circles of light shining through a white screen, and we can hear the sound of plastic mixed with a whistling wind and subterranean streams seemingly emerging from tunnels. In some places you cannot film without permission, and sometimes that is not too bad because there is so much to hear. Our impressions of a famous Russian metro station, full of marble, gold, ornaments and chandeliers, come to us jerkily and falteringly, for the greater part filmed out of a plastic bag so that much of it eludes us. Particularly the light from the chandeliers penetrates the plastic. The wonderful clumsiness of the camera and its movements becomes even clearer when it is momentarily removed from the bag and carries on filming lying on its side and upside down. This roughness bumps against the marble walls, ceilings and pillars, shoots past them or hangs onto them for a moment. All the sounds have turned into music in a marvellous 'soundscape'. Partly due to these sounds, we have managed to gain access to this monumental, unassailable place."
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Esma Moukhtar
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