I began gathering footage for Project Pedestrian in Lyon, France and one of the things that made me choose Lyon was the German film Die Reise nach Lyon (Blind Spot was its English title). Directed by Claudia von Alemann and released in 1981, the film stars Rebecca Pauly as Elisabeth, a young historian trying to trace the life of the 19th century writer and activist Flora Tristan. Walking through Lyon with a tape recorder, Elisabeth tells another character, “I want to imagine what she might have heard, seen, or felt. Colours, noises, all of that, in this town, Lyon, where she spent some time while travelling. I want to make the same trip.” The film made me curious about Lyon and its traboules, pedestrian passageways hidden behind doors that link buildings and streets. I enjoyed retracing some of the routes taken by the film’s character, and noting the ways the city had changed in the intervening decades and the ways it has remained the same.