An essay-film by Juul Hondius about the remarkable, multifaceted and elusive relationship between a sculpture, a symbol, and the organisation it represents. In this film questions regarding the artwork in front of the NATO headquarters in Brussels set off an inquiry into the director’s own changing political position and shine a critical light on NATO as an organisation in motion.
Against the backdrop of the nightlong operation to relocate the steel star-shaped monument to its new home base, the story revolves around an imagined dialogue between the narrator and the sculpture, the sculpture’s maker and his creation and between the sculpture and the shifting geopolitical landscapes it has witnessed in silence.
