The makers quote Musil, Auster, Benjamin and Thoreau to evoke a city (Antwerp, but it could just as well have been Brussels) outside time, without inhabitants, without beginning or end. The ambitious combination of a visual essay and a lyrical documetary is also expressed in the soundtrack: behind the feeble voice of an aged guide, bookbinder Petrus Pluym, we hear a young woman trying to refresh Pluym,'s literary memory. The many contrasting image-clusters suggest a universe in suspension between past and present, between
modernism and post-mondernism, between utopia and dystopia, between dream and reality. The double point of view of the voices extends throught identificiation with a falcon's eye, a surveillance camera, a television personality, a peep show customer, etc. The city as a deformed and marked character, an intangible construction can only be seen correctly throught a warped mirror.
