The topic of Gábor Gyenes is the landscape, the intertwining of built and natural environment specific for Vajka – a „biotope“ in which even the deifinition of the horizon is uncertain. The landscape doesn’t present itself (as in many places we are still used to it) as an idyllic untouched surface, nor as a strikingly contrasting sphere (as the opposite of culture or a passive surbase) only wearing the evidences of technology or pollution. The video is consciously approaching to the environment of Vajka from the logic of regulations, prohibitions and technical-engineering interventions (and the interdependences of these).
The montage-like series of frames have an alienating effect, but in the same time the short movie points out the multi-intertwining of engineering infrastructure, technological intermediation, intervention and the „actual“ natural landscape through this effect. Vajka and its environment is shaped by the aspects of transit, raw material and circulation of „nutrition“ – while everything what we see is moving and constantly changing. The topic of the actual „village“ – community and residence – is flared in one single sequence: a line of swallow nests appear within the picturres of dams, watergates, channels, barriers, banning signs. The dwelling cells of the migrant bird, built totally „ecologically“ from mud and grass are actually sticked to a ferroconcrete construction (which is a vehicle bridge and part of a watergate system in the mean time).