A] PART

A]PART is a video project filmed in the Citroën Building on the Place de l’Yser/IJzerplein In Brussels. Downsbrough directs camera through different levels of the building. Sometimes the camera focusses on what is happening outside: traffic... Only buildings, cars and structures are seen. Human figures remain absent both in- and outside the building, and the film becomes a composition of lines and volumes provided by concrete floors, steel columns and roof structure, windows, TL-lighting, cars, a roof... Most of the video is silent, but the internal sounds of the building can be heard in a few fragments of the piece. At the end, the image turns black, and the sound of the street comes in, a reminder that this video depicts an interior of the city.