TV-archive material on the Kosovo war – in slow motion – the individual scenes are separated by long black phases. The film director adds a personal commentary, giving one better access to the pictures, which a nato speaker described as being the first of a real media war. The way these pictures find their way into reality, becomes visible in the 2nd half of the video, in a series of pictures, only supported by a few sparing synthetic sounds. Two helicopters, and following that, the screen picture of the target area. It has the appearance of a normal residential house, the cross-wires vibrate above one of the windows. A boy runs along the street, one automatically thinks that he’s running away from death. And already in the next scene, an explosive bomb flies directly towards the audience. A lonely soldier lifts his hand, seemingly resigned. Three old people bent with age, go straight up to the camera, trying to save themselves. The last picture, a station with thousands of refugees. In the background, a full train. We know that they’ve really come for us, as with the loading of the bombs too.

Gerda Lampalzer