THE ROSTEMPLATION


The camera kept turning by itself. Well, at the beginning it didn't. In fact, there were two cameras. First of all we put in the batteries. Next, we set off to shoot the contest. OK, so we did shoot the contest but things got out of control. It was but natural since we were blind wanderers. We should be quite good at that if only because we'll have to do it for another 231 years till the next eclipse kicks us into darkness again. To make a long story short, the very moment each of the contestants started squinting through the viewfinder the blind wandering effect was instantly triggered producing utter blind wandering. As the contestants were giving up filming, overcame with dizziness they were in fact giving up the strain of blind wandering. The only natural outcome was stepping into the realm of contemplation. Has anybody got an idea why a few of them had vanished into thin air (and the rest were lying around)? Contemplation is a ritual performed in the absence of any witnesses. As soon as somebody plunged into contemplation they would disappear or drop (dead/powerless) to the ground. After sometime, they had all dropped to the ground, they were all deep in contemplation. The camera went on filming all by itself. It was doing all by itself. The camera hadn't figured it out that it had been on its own for a long time already. It was blind wandering with nobody around. It had shot us as one by one we had slipped/slid/slipped/fell/dropped into contemplation. All of a sudden, Penti's mobile rang and she answered it (started talking with somebody). The camera filmed that, too. The camera had no idea nobody would dig it. Perhaps the camera reckoned they would. In fact, it was the camera that wouldn't dig it. It's no more than a piece of machinery. It went on shooting. Obviously, it was floating.


text by floe & nicolae

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