On 15 March, 2006 I commissioned a DVD CAM to record the noise, the movement of passers- by, the weather, the light
before the locked entrance of a deserted block of flats at number 60, Marni Street, in Athens.
The camera absorbed much more evidence than I had imagined, a few rain drops and a lot of dust.
The point of observation is the balcony of Moka Hotel, just across the road and opposite the locked entrance door.
The camera recorded 24 hours, from daybreak on March 15 until daybreak on the 16th.
In short, I commissioned the camera to record the files of the necessary evidence in order to verify the expectation that the
entrance door in Marni Street would constitute the steady unalterable inflexible untouchable point in the image.

The camera focuses on the lower half of the entrance.
The image also includes the, a few centimeters elevated, space before the entrance.
The entrance therefore should remain closed. Irrelevant to any movement. Intact. Indifferent.
The frame of the camera allows us to observe passers-by, in regard to their distance from the entrance.
We can see no vehicles, only the upper part of some passing buses and trucks. In the evening we can see the reflection
of their lights on the glass door surface.
We can hear the cars. This is an intense noise.
During the night those noises become scarce.
The entrance door is closed.
Before that moment however, at a certain instant, it opened. About three hours after the initiation of the mission, a middle-aged man in a gray suit approaches and in particular prowess unlocks both locks. He then lets them fall on one piece of the door. More occurred after that. It all lasted one hour and a half.

From that certain point I had to declare the mission impossible. As I watched what was happening, I forgot myself.
The camera, untouched, undertakes the task to be the steady point for the image.
There was a power cut in the room for 4 minutes.
At that very instant three men entered the building.

At daybreak of the next day I pressed REC STOP.
I paid the hotel room bill and left.
The entrance door was closed.
The four lost moments had already been completed.