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The gaze of the mundane, where does it direct our eye? To where it's colorful. To where the light breaks its way into the home. Towards the sky beyond the window. Towards the plants and the pets. Often, it lingers on our hands as they go about housework. "Point of view" is the cinematic term for taking the protagonist's perspective. Instead of observing them from the outside, our gaze merges with theirs. Whose POV we share in Maria Mayland's film remains open at first. 16mm vignettes capture domestic spaces that are, however, immediately familiar to us. There are the useful and the sentimental objects, the practical and the decorative corners, united in that heterogeneous harmony inherent in all inhabited spaces. 

On the audio track, Mayland engages in conversation with Maxi Wallenhorst and Kuku Schrapnell: about the possibility and impossibility of queer historiography and the necessity of resistance in a climate of political fear. About aesthetics and incoherence, Kurt Cobain and Trans*atlantis.