479 - The light of the moment
N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Evi Charitidou
Noon at Mesologgi…Athanasia closely looks at the houses. Full shot. At a corner she meets an old an. He smiles at her, but she’s not looking at him or rather she doesn’t see him.
John
What are you looking at, my dear Athanasia? Medium long shot.
Athanasia
How low are our houses…
John
I am low, too… She smiles at him. You are looking at them as if for the first time…
Athanasia
I’m looking at them through Fotis eyes. Close up.
John
Did he leave in the morning? She is nodding. What did he tell you? Medium shot.
Athanasia
Here the houses love the land deeper…
John
As humans do… Time.
Athanasia
Those who know the solitude of the time…
John
Those who know what the weight of the light means… Silence. When will he come again back to us?
Athanasia
I didn’t have the time to ask him…Time. I was so… Extreme close up.
John
Let’s go for a walk together. He gives her his hand…They are walking next to one another like an old couple… Do you remember that house? He shows her a house. Medium long shot.
Athanasia
No, whose is it?
John
I tend to forget as years pass. You hadn’t been born, of course….Whereas… Close up.
Athanasia
Whereas?
John
I’m not sure… An idea crossed my mind…Time. I met her there…
Athanasia
Really…When?
John
Last century! Medium shot.
Athanasia
Smiling. Always accurate!
John
You know, ‘when’ is not any longer significant, because ‘now’ is always… Medium long shot.
Athanasia
After always?
John
What question is this?
Athanasia
I heard it yesterday…
John
Fotis?
Athanasia
He said it to somebody and it took me by surprise…
John
No matter where Fotis is, a whole world lives inside him. Medium close shot.
Athanasia
The music of silence…
John
I have to introduce you to a friend of his… The fisherman of Holy Virgin…
Athanasia
But who is he? When did he meet him?
John
He did not meet him yet, but he knows that he will take him to the islet…
Athanasia
Did he ask this from him?
John
No, there was no need…
Athanasia
But then how?
John
There is no ‘how’, when there’s a need.
Insert: A wooden house in the Lagoon. Full shot.
Fotis
I have to go back… Medium long shot.
Marina
Why is this so significant for you?
Fotis
I felt the passion of the land and sea.
Marina
The kiss of eternity?
Fotis
No, the need of immortality.
Marina
The islet with the Holy Virgin hurt you?
Fotis
No, it cannot hurt me… It touched me deeply.
Marina
Her style?
Fotis
Her voice…Time. Her image…Close up.
Marina
But, did you hear her? Did you see her?
Fotis
Yes, in the future.
Marina
I don’t understand you… Medium long shot.
Fotis
There on that islet of the past there’s the image of the future.
Insert: The icon of Holy Virgin. Extreme close up.
Athanasia
Do you also think that everything may start from here? Medium long shot.
John
End and beginning always meet.
Athanasia
Are you talking about the Exit?
John
I’m talking about the resistance of time…
Athanasia
The light of the moment…