Explanation of Constraint

I filmed two translations via the eurythmics of the phrases: Outranspo’s drunken boat waves in the waves and in German: Outranspo's betrunkenes Schiff winkt in den Wellen. The film in English is a half-visible translation (Steiner paraphrases eurythmics as “visible discourse”), often hiding the arms, the hands, the legs, and the feet which are the principle translators. The second part in German takes a bit more distance and we are thus able to see the letters becoming movements of the arms and legs (the legs are an extension of the original alphabet, after a month of work in studios in Vitry-sur- Seine and Le Havre this past July). Both parts were filmed in Tübingen, the city of Hölderlin.