Route to Cape Town
Wolfgang Lehmann & Thomas Gerwin
(Germany, 2005, video, 05:17)
Filmed from within a moving vehicle, Route to Cape Town transforms travel into a form of waiting—where motion is repeatedly interrupted by moments of suspension. As the video progressively accelerates, the journey begins to feel endless, as if it no longer has a clear beginning or destination. This strongly echoes Han’s text, in which he argues that moments in time no longer reach closure, causing the present moment to lose its value. Within this condition, the silence we experience in Knightbirds becomes increasingly difficult to sustain, which in turn causes waiting to lose its value.