The View from a Window
Imaginary landscape nr. 35
What can a tenant hear from the window on Sunday morning looking out in the courtyard? Of course, it's not right to look through a closed window, you have to open the window properly to hear Something. If he/she does, he/she takes a breath, he/she closes his/her eyes, he/she can hear something going on on the left: some guys in the working cloth are building a scaffolding, and the cracking is echoing through the architecture of the yard. If he/she raises his chin a little, he/she might hear a shouting from a distant market! But realize it can't be coming from our yard! Bacause the tenant when he/she closed his/her eyes, probably fell asleep for a moment and a sonic scene entered from another place, from another time. This can happen when you start to listen from the open window on Sunday morning and close your eyes.
Tributed to the momory of Theodoros Angelopoulos, who was born in Pireus in 1935.
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