Silent Machines by Hyperlink / Athens

Silent Machines
Participant artists:
Paul Barsch& Tilman Hornig – Tanzende Bügeleisen (2019)
MRZB – Innui Innui’s Gate (x mutation)
Alexandra
Koumantaki – The word of silence
Emmy Skensved –
Untitled
Yannis Voulgaris –
Oddments of a dawn
Lyrics & Sound : Georgios Karamanolakis
Filmed and Edited
by Hyperlink Athens


Owned by the local EMI subsidiary and located in Rizoupoli, Athens, Greece, the
factory was established in December 1930 and seized all forms of operations in
April 1990.


Since then the “dead space” of the factory has seen many different
usages. From people living within the abandoned factory to underground rave
parties and from scavengers living of the infrastructure of the building to
“mystic secret” gatherings.


I come from far away
lands where words sing of alternate endings.
And set up
dissonant strings on what once was.
Disenthrall our
form from safety
We travel in
silver boxes
A vision of void
comforts
It sleeps in
empty units
Forgot of what
once was and serve on silver …
A here is now.
Big houses of a
future – past
They glimmer in
the fall of science.
Communally empty
and cold.
Shout.
AA AA AAAA
Outcasts of the
night.
A thousand
predictions on the fall.
They drip like
rusted senses.
They humidify the
trenches.
Revealing a path
to the hidden city wall.
”It is truth
that hides the fact that there is none”
Their gods in
empty spaces, are faces in the dust.
We are here for
today
Tomorrow will
never last.
And close your
eyes and senses,
tide up on golden
knots.
And break in a
million spaces.
Just fearing for
their loss. 


Short
Description:
Silent Machines
is a film by Hyperlink Athens that takes place in “Columbia” pressing
plant.


Owned by the local EMI subsidiary and located in Rizoupoli, Athens, Greece, the
factory was established in December 1930 and seized all forms of operations in
April 1990.

Since then the “dead space” of the factory has seen many different
usages. From people living within the abandoned factory to underground rave
parties and from scavengers living of the infrastructure of the building to
“mystic secret” gatherings.