villa watch - 2005 video, 16 mm film on DVD, in collaboration with Judith Hopf Exhibition views: No Matter How Bright the Light, the Crossing Occurs at Night, KW Berlin, 2006. The short film is an adaptation of a scene from Luis Buñuel's film ‘Exterminating Angel’. In "Villa Watch" a group of people are stuck in a villa for no obvious reason. Meanwhile, relatives, gapers, police and the media gather outside. They speculate about the reasons for the situation. All doors of the villa are wide open but no one comes out. There is no visible barrier; however, people outside seem to be as immobile as the ones inside since no one goes inside either. At one point a kid with a skateboard tries to enter the building. He turns back half way. "Villa Watch" takes on three perspectives on the events. One is the perspective of an artist who happens to shoot an experimental 16mm film in the area. The second perspective is the view of the media, represented by a TV team, and the third one is a curious neighbour who saw it on television and brings his mini-DV camera along. All three perspectives intersect at the moment the skateboarder crosses the police line.