Viewers of Optics

Observing events through an optical instrument places the observer in a unique position, in that he can follow the course of events closely but from a reasonably safe distance. In Viewers of Optics, we are told about just such an authentic eye-witness report. Before us stands a desolate landscape. A voice off-screen delivers a poetic account of a disaster which has overtaken this area. Through bits and pieces of witnesses' accounts, we hear of a murder committed, the destruction of nature, etc. The objects and spaces observed in this way become metaphors for the reality of an inner silence.

Henry Kamphuizen