Something has happened, and someone saw something. But what happened stays out of shot, as does the witness of the occurrence. The images we see don't tell a story either, but point to a (violent?) happening that took place with a woman as the victim. Is she the witness, the only one who knows anything about this event? The signs of her existence and the signs of the occurrence are shown to us with a lack of emphasis that suggests that it could be something that could easily be overlooked. Something now indicated almost casually, despite its apparently dramatic nature for the one (those) involved. The image also alternates between colour and monochrome, from clear structures to coloured surfaces, from sharp to out of focus. The out of focus images often arise as a result of violent movements of the camera and because the image seems so near by that you can no longer see what is so close. In the same way the sound track is sometimes an amplification of the background noise. Too close up and too hard, out of focus and moving violently, they produce the feeling that something has gone too far. In all this, there is no more than a reference to the occurrence, but even that passes. And yet, something has changed, something has happened and someone saw it.
– Carla Hoekendijk
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Production Video and Intermedia Department, Royal College of Fine Arts, Stockholm
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