# NOBODY HOME

**Concept · Rooms after erasure**

Families disappear from their home movies, but their effects remain: chairs rock, doors close, and birthday candles go out in empty rooms.

**First proof.** Build a sixty-second study from one newly recorded room sequence: a person enters, places a cup, moves a chair, and leaves. Show an intact passage, then return to a version with the person removed while the chair movement remains. Hold the empty aftermath with room sound. End with an accessible original/derived comparison. Keep the mask and any synthesized background separate from recorded pixels, so the intervention can be inspected.

**Methods.** Primary: SCION 085 · Jeanne Dielman — Routine as a Sensitive Measuring Instrument. Supporting: SCION 067 · (nostalgia) — Anticipated Image, Vanishing Evidence; SCION 097 · Welcome to Pine Point — Remembered Place Scrapbook.

**Development boundary.** Requires an explicit person-removal and compositing adapter. Removal is an authored intervention; it does not establish that the historical room was empty.

## Primary operator SCION 85: Jeanne Dielman — Routine as a Sensitive Measuring Instrument

Theorem: Train the viewer to notice a small deviation by first giving ordinary work a stable, intelligible duration and order. The deviation must redistribute effort and attention, not simply announce itself with music or an insert.

Acceptance criteria:
- The critic can reconstruct the routine after the first two passages.
- The third passage’s difference is visible before any explanation.
- The deviation changes subsequent work rather than functioning as a decorative anomaly.
- Duration conveys effort and attention without arbitrary dead time.
- The ending preserves an unresolved practical state rather than importing a sensational payoff.