Flower Power Waiting Room, Wolfgang Winter and Berthold Horbelt (Germany)

I could find another work of their’s at the front of Obihiro station, called “Flower Power Waiting Room.” This 3-meter-high white pavilion works as a waiting room for buses to the racecourse and is surrounded by blooming flowers. I went to this pavilion twice, at daytime and night, but I preferred the atmosphere at night. The colour of white changed with the light as “Obihiro Lightmachine” did showing me many different appearances.

Flower Power Waiting Room, Wolfgang Winter and Berthold Horbelt (Germany)

I went to a tent which looked like a Mongolian nomads’ tent “gel.” I was led by the slow tempo English of Cine Nomad’s film work “Three Windows” on the screen. Cine Nomad is a two-film-director team of Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel. This work is about silent life of an American poet, Robert Lax, who lived on Patmos Island in Greece. It was shown on three screens. First of all, I was interested in the Mongolian-like-decoration when my eyes got used to the darkness in the tent.

Three Windows, Cine Nomad (Germany, Switzerland)

However, I was unconciously getting into poetic monochrome images. It would take less than one minute to get bored if you thought, “it is just a film that shot a usual daily life.” However, I think the reason why my eyes were glued to the three screens was that Lax’s unaffected style, his simple words and the Greek pastoral scene was superbly united on the screen.