A letter from a distant land
Posted: 13/08/2017 Filed under: From a distant land Leave a comment“I am writing you this letter from a distant land. Its name is…”
With this phrase Chris Marker’s film ‘Letters from Siberia’ has started. I am watching his film on my wall, back in my hometown. I am looking at a man who looks at a distant to me, but close to him landscape of the land I have never visited. The film narrates and asks many questions about the country, which doesn’t exist anymore. It is a country I was born in; this country is my reason to be here, back to my hometown, which I left many years ago; it is a country, traces of which I had to re-visit to be able to produce a new work, which I will be exhibiting here, in a distant land for you.
I am writing you this letter from a distant land. Its name is Estonia.