Here is a video of the Salzach river near my house in Salzburg, filmed a few days ago, as well as photos from meeting point of the rivers Saalach and Salzach a few kilometers ahead, which I have taken previously.
reconstructed freewrite:
3 Gestures/Movements, password: Salzach:
Borders Resurfacing Assignment 1 from Sandra Chatterjee on Vimeo.
The Saalach in that area is the border between Austria and Germany, the Salzach in parts as well.
I am also added a link to pictures from the news in summer 2015 of the Saalach River and the border.
My video with gestures below is super simple. I am sitting, because sick.
Video: Password: Salzach
Photos by Sandra: Saalach Spitz, where the two rivers meet:
Saalach, border river, when the border had not re-surfaced yet.
reconstructed freewrite:
Salzach- a body of water - so close to my house, source of calm, source of beauty, and
and and peace. I exhale when I cross
the bridge from the station to get to my house a sign of having arrived. Most
places I go in this town I get to walk or bike along the river, cherishing the beauty even as I transition from
one office to another filing taxes.
About 15 minutes by bike up the river the Salzach meets another river: the Saalach. Saalach
Spitz where the two rivers meet- a beautiful oasis. Forgetting the border it signifies
politically/geographically- between Germany and Austria..
That blissful forgetting changed when the Saalach became a
site of hope and despair, when the
border was closed, as thousands of people fleeing from Syria wanted to pass.
3 Gestures/Movements, password: Salzach:
Borders Resurfacing Assignment 1 from Sandra Chatterjee on Vimeo.
News photos:
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