Front Window
HD-Video, 2013
16 min 14 sec
Since
I have moved to the Nordbahnstrasse in Vienna, I have spent plenty of
time looking out of the window: On the waste ground of the former
North Train Station. A new residential district with 10.000
apartments is being built here at great speed. Before the start of
construction works I had just seen the bomb searchers who searched
the area of dud bombs remaining from World War II and workers who
took out soil samples. In the meantime the tenements move closer and
the UNO-City fades into the background. The highest tower of Vienna
is nearing completion. The remaining waste land is cut through by the
city railway tracks.
At
the end of the winter a man has attracted my attention while he was
working on the waste land during rainy weather. Out of curiosity I
have gradually approached him with the zoom of my video camera. He
became the protagonist of my video. I have felt a little like Jeff
from Hitchcock's »Rear Window«.
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