“The past and the present meet in my new film work 'Capital' in an unpredictable way. The interrelation between Rotterdam's destruction during WWII, its current renovation and a blind person is not visible directly, but emerges only when certain imagery and contents are linked to each other in one timeline. I am interested in how the city's "capital" is expanded on our physical condition and imagination. This is the material I will work with in this new body of film, choosing Rotterdam itself as its protagonist. The eyes of the blind is a metaphor for the inability to see what is inscribed in the ground level of Rotterdam's 20th century history. The image of the blind person's eyes is a mediator between my imagination of facts and the real condition of the person that is filmed. The film takes a literal challenge with the Russian avant-garde, which back then proclaimed that reality is a mechanical process and can be corrected, rebuilt, destroyed.”
(Aleksander Komarov, February 2009)

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