| | A room: floor, walls and ceiling is black. 10 Monitors, 10 video players. Sound. All the 10 videos are edited at two paces which change every three minutes.
First pace:
One after another the monitors lights up and goes out with a ”Hello”, showing a Vietnamese child looking directly into the camera.
Second pace:
All the monitors shows faces of Vietnamese children looking. 40 different faces are edited in a fast tempo. The rhyme ”hello by bye OK, hello bye bye OK, hello bye bye OK....” is repeated continuously.
The monitors were placed high and low, at a distance and close. At the first pace it is possible to look back at one child at a time. Then it changes, the children are surrounding the viewer in a continous flow in all the monitors. The childrens urge of wanting contact becomes a threat of limitless space.
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The filming was made during 2 months in Vietnam 1993.
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