The pond takes as its point of departure the opening sequence of Satyajit Rays' not implemented script The Alien, in which an alien's spaceship lands on a lotus blossom-pond and sinks to the ground. Beyond its actual significance as a possible filmset, the pond is to be seen as an accessible projection screen for the versatile associations Braun sets up between script, author and other protagonists and objects that are part of this trilogy.

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