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Two towers in a landscape. Both of them stand in the border regions of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. One tower which once was a mine shaft, is now part of AFCENT (Allied Forces Central Europe), the NATO Headquarters. The other tower, Eben Ezer, was built by R. Garcet as a 'Bastion Pacifique' at a preordained spot in the north east of Belgium, in an area where so many wars have been fought. In this poetic documentary, in which a never ending car trip represents the irreconcilable ideological distance between the towers, the AFCENT PR officer and the builder of Eben Ezer give their points of view. It shows how different their approaches to the questions war and peace are and how differently they handle the symbolism. The soldier sums up the objectives of NATO and the tower builder reveals a mystical way of thinking going back to the Old Testament. His tower is to become a new Babylon (God's Gate), an intermediary between heaven and earth. Ebenezer stands for 'The Stone of Help' and 'Hithero hath the Lord helped us'. But what use is it? After all there are two towers in the landscape.
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Beatrijs Bergmans
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Scenario: Rob Rombout, Camera: Komer Kleijn, Editing: Adriana Moreira, Editing, sound mixing: Fabio Lani, Music: Excuse My French, Production: RTBF, GSARA, Wallonie Image Production, With: Jessica Elmido, Robert Garcet
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