A psychokinetic trip
in northern Greece
Summer 1995
by Alexander Müller
Emanuel (paleonaut) and Alexander
(dilettante of architecture), whilst on the verge of their twenties, decide
according to mutual interest in the decay of occidental culture to detect what had been a
beginning. Exhausted from work and infernal personal relations they come to the conclusion
they should spin in order to protect a subliminal feeling of nondescript selfishness by
leaving from Thessalonike with the unwanted destination Constantinopolis.
Such is the trip that, in order to bust one´s mind out, music is heard at an insane
volume and control over the car as well as time and space could no longer be guaranteed.
Surviving what could have been a lethal and quite spectacular car crash totally unhurt,
the road is the place to stay on. Nourishing from imaginative food and boiling in
desperate euphorism, continuous physical decay and fever gave way to what sensible people
would leave up to synthetic imaginators. 
By some means the destinations Pella,
Vergina and Samothrake were reached with the traditional body- not mind moving means of
transportation.
The photographs, illusions connected in the latter, are harzadously true. Something
else than a documentary of the past. Designing its own reality of time, the two-
experience and machine- built images were very different, but show two aspects of the
invented reality. Unlike other means of documentation they do not work as reminders of the
past, but were already past pictures back then.
When it comes to nature- photography, the 1940s camera should do nothing
else than any other. Besides: As nature changes its appearance but never its style, at
least the one exemplarity taken does not do it within decades -due to continuous
regeneration- the photograph we see is from the 1940s, though taken in 1995. As the
mechanic cannot change its point of view, dating from those years, all it can preserve is
the world of that time. So anything that is conveyed from this camera's point of view is
the past present of our own imagination.
Alexander Müller is an architect and filmmaker. He lives
in Münich and likes to take photographs with his 1940 Binocular Rolleiflex.
