You will only see a flash of light (WiP)

You are about to enter someone’s home. You are not invited.
The house is empty but you can hear the voices of the occupants.
What will happen in this house?
What has happened in this house?

Look at the two mirrors. What do you see?
Look at the evidence. Are you convinced?
How do you exit this house? Are you the same?

The protagonists : the mother the daughter the fiance the brother the murderer the TV presenter the audience the neighbors the police

The objects: vase sculpture hair brush mirror keys camera handkerchief wire archive flowers the bodies a grenade

Numinous object: an object that tells a story. The aura of an object.

Topos: a recurring element of the past, an empty vessel, that is filled with content / thinking the new and the old in parallel lines.

Scrying mirror/catoptric television: mediation as a way to minimize or accentuate. Entrance to the past, the now and the future.

Haptic filmmaking: turn the eyes into organs of touch.

The Sorin Matei case remains one of the most controversial hostage situations that gripped Greece in September 1998. On the evening of September 23, 1998, Greek-Romanian fugitive Sorin Matei broke into an apartment on Niovis Street in Kato Patisia, taking four occupants hostage with the threat of a grenade. He then called a Greek TV station, where he engaged in a live broadcast conversation with the channel's main news anchor, Nikos Evangelatos, for about four hours.

Believing the grenade was fake, police forces stormed the apartment that same night. Tragically, the grenade exploded, killing tenant Amalia Ginaki. Sorin Matei, injured in the explosion, died under unclear circumstances three days later in his cell at Korydallos prison hospital. The botched police operation led to the resignation of police chief Lieutenant General Athanasios Vassilopoulos.

This incident marked Greece's first televised death, yet despite its significance, the audiovisual records of those four hours have vanished from both public and private archives. This lack of physical evidence presented a significant challenge in my research but also became a crucial element. The archival absence highlighted the elusive nature of truth and memory in public records, transforming a void into a poignant research asset.