Log-book: 15th August

It was a good thing we didn’t wake up at 6 o’clock, as it was first planned, but shot the common scene after breakfast. The picture on the wall in the main square served as a base. Basically it is a plan of how the square will look like in the future after all the reconstructions. There are gray figures standing in different positions. We formed similar positions in the middle of the street: some couples, a man playing the violin, an other walking, a lady carrying water on her head. After “action!” we froze for a minute. It seemed that the cars always came when we tried to shoot the scene. Some people took pictures of us as we stood there. I felt like we were forming a living statue park in the middle of the busiest road of the village. We tried an other location as well, in front of the most beautiful but very much ruined Protestant building. On the film we will dissolve out of the picture and people will walk through us. The goal is to demonstrate how people move away and disappear in the future. But there will be other people coming, maybe tourists. Also, the figures we represent are unnatural, just like the gray figures on the plan. The future of people cannot be planned with a 3D architecture program.

In the afternoon Anna lead a discussion about permaculture and transition movement. Since the theme of our workshops is the future, it was nice to expend our views about the future of our planet. Permaculture is both a design method and technical solutions for building sustainable communities. We talked about agriculture as a possible field of application. The idea behind permaculture is that people live in harmony with nature. It is possible to add to the resources instead of exhausting or storing them. Transition movement offers a guideline of how to move from a oil based society to a non oil based society using the knowledge of permaculture.

Anikó and Máté spoke with the elderly Hungarian lady, who is always very pleased to talk to somebody in Hungarian. She really opened up for them but they couldn’t make an interview with her because of her vulnerability.

Coral, Kálmán and I spent the afternoon working on the scene of two tourists lost in the mines. We worked in the dusty room of the borrowed empty house. Aware of the possibility that we are going to die, we wrote messages on the floor with water. Before the rehearsal we took interviews with members of the group and with locals about what they would write. Among a lot of commonplace sentences, I liked this one: I know that it was stupid, but I did it and I am proud of it.(Hinsenkamp Fanni)