single channel video, 2008, duration 5’ 17”
with  Anaïs Bollansée   Kobe
voices Lieve De Bruyn   Peter Willaeys   Marie Julia Bollansée
setting  thanks to Roland Rens+ & Lieve De Bruyn
translation subtitles  Erika Peeters

The young girl Anaïs meets the very old Leonberger Kobe. In real years the girl is about two years older than the dog. But in reality things are quite different. The dog is very, very old, he is approaching the end of his life and is suffering from ailments of old age.The girl is very young, her life is just beginning and she’s fighting her way through adolescent storms. Time and age become relative in this set-up. Their meeting generates a magnetic field, within which both of them are safe from the harshness of life and death.
view the piece in Volkskrant Oog