Bucharest 8 March 2022

In the video ‘Bucharest 8 March 2022’ we listen to a voice message that shares city experiences and impressions from a walk in Bucharest city centre. Throughout the message, we understand that it is the first time that the narrator has been there. She is affected by urban behaviors, conditions, (hi)stories, textures, patterns and relates these perceptions in critical reflections on our today common use of web mapping platforms when encountering a city. The camera, in juxtaposition with the spoken message, navigates in a drawn-collaged city map of Bucharest. The inverted map is blended and layered with contour lines that conceals fragments of architectural and urban situations. Slowlythese navigations and perceptions reflect a stratified Bucharest on 8 March 2022, framed in a personalized google-map-look-alike interface.