a.m./p.m.
a.m./p.m.
project description
In a.m./p.m there are no human beings in sight. The camera slowly and systematically scans photos of buildings. We hear a woman's voice accompanying the images of cosmopolitan cityscapes. She recounts her story and that of the world; about the images of today, about her journey. Her monologue is a fictionalised version of the impressions that Asselberghs picked up during his trip to Palestine. He consciously chose for the film to show the explosive and mediatized situation in the region by taking an absolutely minimalist audiovisual approach. The fact that he creates a detached view by using a female voice instead of his own, coupled with deviating from a run-of-the-mill documentary style, produces a complex approach to his ideas and feelings on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
archive.transmediale.de/page/detail/detail.0.projects.445.3.html (transmediale website archive)
related text
A longer version of the voice-over text is available on the book Time Suspended by Herman Asselberghs, Els Opsomer and Pieter van Bogaert (published by Square vzw, 2004).
related links
project site: www.augusteorts.be/projects/project/7
image credits
[01] Herman Asselberghs: a.m./p.m.