Timeline

Timeline’ is set in a park in a new multistoried building quarter of Brussels. The camera observes the park from a fixed point of view. It pans slowly from left to right, sometimes also jerkily. Suddenly we notice changes. Time leaps let different seasons follow each other. A narrow red shining ribbon, which is put up between metal posts, flutters steadfastly in the wind like a common theme, that streches out through the whole scenery.

The seemingly unintentional camera movement summarizes a larger time period, as if there was only one ongoing take. The involvement of an editing process that has been taking place, is just as covered as revealed. The camera is observing along a timeline, which traverses the park like a breathing; stories don’t unfold in a succession, but resemble rather a memory, that collects them.