CZONG INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Two experimental short films by Mersolis Schöne will be presented at the international exhibition Experimental Film and Video 2025 at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA Museum) in Korea, taking place from May 21 to June 15, 2025.
CICA Museum
DAS DENKENDE KINO: DICHTUNG LEBEN!
Partizipatives Kinoexperiment, das Filmkunst, Poesie und Philosophie miteinander verbindet. Mit Mersolis Schöne, Reinhard Koller-Astleithner, Valerio Zanini, Michael Fischer, Apollina Smaragd & Patrick Nicolas Schiel. Dienstag, 15. April 2025, Filmhaus Kino am Spittelberg (Wien), 13 Uhr, Eintritt frei. In Koproduktion mit dem Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival. Gefördert von der Stadt Wien Kultur
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THE POETRY OF MOMENTS
Exhibition by Mersolis Schöne, AnaMaria Heigl and Marion Steinfellner at Galerie am Park (Liniengasse 2A, 1060 Wien) from 21.10.-01.11.2024. Vernissage, 21.10., 6 pm with Silvia Müllegger (art historian) and District Councillor Prof. Dr. Kilian Franer. Poetic-philosophical film evening “The Cinema of Thoughts” on 23.10., at 7 pm.
Programme
THE THINKING CINEMA
Art Space INSEL Retz (18.05.-15.06). Mersolis Schöne: Concepts of a poetic-philosophical cinema. Exhibition based on text interactions with Thomas Ballhausen, Eva-Maria Braun, Michael Fischer, Katharina Klement, Corinna Schubert, Apollina Smaragd, Marion Steinfellner, Rainer Totzke, Herbert J. Wimmer
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE - RE-READING THE READING
Presentation of the film project and a talk with Mersolis Schöne, at the ACC Gallery in Weimar, on Dec. 20, 2023, at 18h, in cooperation with the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche. Featuring contributions by Rafael Carrión Arias, Anna Barth, Paolo D'Iorio, Lisz Hirn, Nikolaos Loukidelis, Johannes Oberthür, Renate Reschke, Martin Ruehl, Corinna Schubert, Tracy Strong, Babu Thaliath, Rainer Totzke, Matthias Vieider, and Vivetta Vivarelli.
Programme
THE EPHEMERAL OF MEANING
Künstlerhaus Wien - Factory (11.01.2023): Relations of momentary sound, language and sign understanding. Mersolis Schöne (film) and Michael Fischer (sound) open a filmic-performative space.
Programme
AUTUMN WIND AND THE SOUND OF TIME
The latest work in the series Memory Sculpture Interactions, an interactive performative setting in exchange with other artists, in which the works are created during the performative exchange.
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HONIGAUGENBLICK
Exhibition together with AnaMaria Heigl and Marion Steinfellner at Galerie am Park from 24.10.-03.11.2022.
Dates and programme!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
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IN THIS PRESENT SPACE
A cinematic realisation of a concert by the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra (VIO), conducted by Michael Fischer, at the Odeon Theater in Vienna, staged exclusively for the film.
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IN THIS PRESENT SPACE
A cinematic realisation of a concert by the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra (VIO), conducted by Michael Fischer, at the Odeon Theater in Vienna, staged exclusively for the film.
Watch the full movie!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
DRAWING WITH THOUGHT
The Memory Sculpture Drawings feature a recurring set of symbols arranged in novel compositions. Every symbol carries a distinct meaning, and their new combinations give rise to fresh layers of significance. The drawings act as thinking tools to construct an internal framework of sculptural memory.
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KATHARINA KLEMENT - NOTES, SOUND, AND FILM
Based on observations, interviews, performative elements, and readings, the film resonates with her in an experimental way as it traces the artists working process.
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INDIAN DREAM
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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IN THIS PRESENT SPACE
A cinematic realisation of a concert by the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra (VIO), conducted by Michael Fischer, at the Odeon Theater in Vienna, staged exclusively for the film.
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KATHARINA KLEMENT - NOTES, SOUND, AND FILM
Vienna-based composer, pianist, and improviser Katharina Klement works on the expansion of the concept of music.
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DETERNITY
"Hey you! Watch out! What does the deep midnight say?" "Deternity" is an experimental poetic short film exploring Friedrich Nietzsche's poem "Once More" (also called "The Drunken Song" from the book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra").
Watch the trailer!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
IN THIS PRESENT SPACE
A cinematic realisation of a concert by the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra (VIO), conducted by Michael Fischer, at the Odeon Theater in Vienna, staged exclusively for the film.
Watch the full movie!
IN THIS PRESENT SPACE
A cinematic realisation of a concert by the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra (VIO), conducted by Michael Fischer, at the Odeon Theater in Vienna, staged exclusively for the film.
Watch the full movie!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
IN THIS PRESENT SPACE
A cinematic realisation of a concert by the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra (VIO), conducted by Michael Fischer, at the Odeon Theater in Vienna, staged exclusively for the film.
Watch the full movie!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
IN THIS PRESENT SPACE
A cinematic realisation of a concert by the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra (VIO), conducted by Michael Fischer, at the Odeon Theater in Vienna, staged exclusively for the film.
Watch the full movie!
LOVE - A MEMORY SCULPTURE
Moments of a memory. Abstract traces and noisy audible tissue. Fuzzy symbols of dreams pass by. Overlapping spheres of dialogues. The former movement exists as a trace of memory now. The film summarizes the results of an artistic-philosophical experiment in India - on the subject of love.
Watch the trailer!
FOREVER
As an archive in constant change, walls surround us. As on skin, traces of urban life are shown on them. Out of the corners of our eyes, scratches, nicks, shapes, letters and words are absorbed by us in passing moments.
Watch the trailer!
IN THIS PRESENT SPACE
A cinematic realisation of a concert by the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra (VIO), conducted by Michael Fischer, at the Odeon Theater in Vienna, staged exclusively for the film.
Watch the full movie!
EROS-THANATOS-MACHINE
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
More at Saatchi Art Gallery!
IN THIS PRESENT SPACE
A cinematic realisation of a concert by the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra (VIO), conducted by Michael Fischer, at the Odeon Theater in Vienna, staged exclusively for the film.
Watch the full movie!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
IN THIS PRESENT SPACE
A cinematic realisation of a concert by the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra (VIO), conducted by Michael Fischer, at the Odeon Theater in Vienna, staged exclusively for the film.
Watch the full movie!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters.
Watch the trailer!
IN THIS PRESENT SPACE
A cinematic realisation of a concert by the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra (VIO), conducted by Michael Fischer, at the Odeon Theater in Vienna, staged exclusively for the film.
Watch the full movie!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
IN THIS PRESENT SPACE
A cinematic realisation of a concert by the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra (VIO), conducted by Michael Fischer, at the Odeon Theater in Vienna, staged exclusively for the film.
Watch the full movie!
LOVE - A MEMORY SCULPTURE
Moments of a memory. Abstract traces and noisy audible tissue. Fuzzy symbols of dreams pass by. Overlapping spheres of dialogues. The former movement exists as a trace of memory now. The film summarizes the results of an artistic-philosophical experiment in India - on the subject of love.
Watch the trailer!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters.
Watch the trailer!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
MARS PSYCHOGRAM
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
More at Saatchi Art Gallery!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
ARTISTIC SELF
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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TRAKTORMENSCH
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
FOREVER
As an archive in constant change, walls surround us. As on skin, traces of urban life are shown on them. Out of the corners of our eyes, scratches, nicks, shapes, letters and words are absorbed by us in passing moments.
Watch the trailer!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
SCIENCE AND LOVE
Bridging the gap between science and love, this philosophical film essay takes viewers on a journey of discovery through the public spaces of the University of Vienna to explore the connection between reason and emotion - between science and love.
Watch the trailer!
THINKING WITH THE HANDS
What role does physicality play in science? "Thinking with the Hands" is a short ethnographic documentary dedicated to the involvement of physicality in scientific knowledge production.
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DEATH
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
More at Saatchi Art Gallery!
SCIENCE AND LOVE
Bridging the gap between science and love, this philosophical film essay takes viewers on a journey of discovery through the public spaces of the University of Vienna to explore the connection between reason and emotion - between science and love.
Watch the trailer!
EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
GENESIS OF A PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT (STILL)
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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PENELOPE'S DREAM
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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EXPOSED TO EACH OTHER
Touches are journeys - a film poem about the multi-faceted journey of interpersonal, intercultural encounters. How are we connected with each other? Based on a poetic text collage by Marion Steinfellner, which brings together Indian, Japanese, German, and Austrian texts.
Watch the trailer!
CONUNDRUM LETTERS
Conundrum letters (Vexierbriefe) explore hidden imaginings. They tell stories of epistolary events, such as that of the two love letters "Liebe Hilde..." and "Gustaf, Gustaf, Gustaf..." about the relationship between memory and the future, the meaning of words as writing and image, and the question of sender and addressee.
READING THROUGH THE BODY
What happens if a philosophical text by Friedrich Nietzsche is mirrored in the world of sign language? What happens if thoughts and signs are translated into moving pictures?
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MARION STEINFELLNER
A reading and interview session with Marion Steinfellner about the experimental and poetic film triptych "The Remembering Movement" with Mersolis Schöne and Michael Fischer.
Watch the Interview!
I-HAZE IN THE GLOW
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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THE REMEMBERING MOVEMENT
What is the silent moment between thoughts, glances, and memories? "The Remembering Movement" thinks poetically about this moment. This film depicts an experimental and poetic film triptych: "Thinking-Chant", "Gaze-Frame", and "Light-Texture".
Watch the trailer!
JAMES DELANEY
in "THINKING NIETZSCHE". An essayistic documentary featuring interviews and performances based on Nietzsche's book "Human, All Too Human" which leads the viewer to extraordinary places of thinking.
Watch the trailer!
THE REMEMBERING MOVEMENT
What is the silent moment between thoughts, glances, and memories? "The Remembering Movement" thinks poetically about this moment. This film depicts an experimental and poetic film triptych: "Thinking-Chant", "Gaze-Frame", and "Light-Texture".
Watch the trailer!
EXTENDED MACHINE
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
More at Saatchi Art Gallery!
SCIENCE AND LOVE
Bridging the gap between science and love, this philosophical film essay takes viewers on a journey of discovery through the public spaces of the University of Vienna to explore the connection between reason and emotion - between science and love.
Watch the trailer!
MARION STEINFELLNER
A reading and interview session with Marion Steinfellner about the experimental and poetic film triptych "The Remembering Movement" with Mersolis Schöne and Michael Fischer.
Watch the Interview!
ARNO BÖHLER
in "THINKING NIETZSCHE". An essayistic documentary featuring interviews and performances based on Nietzsche's book "Human, All Too Human" which leads the viewer to extraordinary places of thinking.
Watch the trailer!
SHOWING, THE STAGE SPEAKS.
Something happens on those boards. Out of this us emerges a language of signs; in speaking it, the things are given voice. (BaseCollective performance at Adishakti Laboratory. Memory Sculpture on Stage, Photo by P. Kumar)
DETERNITY
"Hey you! Watch out! What does the deep midnight say?" "Deternity" is an experimental poetic short film exploring Friedrich Nietzsche's poem "Once More" (also called "The Drunken Song" from the book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra").
Watch the trailer!
SKIN WHILE DANCING
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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INNER SPACE
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
More at Saatchi Art Gallery!
LOVE - A MEMORY SCULPTURE
Moments of a memory. Abstract traces and noisy audible tissue. Fuzzy symbols of dreams pass by. Overlapping spheres of dialogues. The former movement exists as a trace of memory now. The film summarizes the results of an artistic-philosophical experiment in India - on the subject of love.
Watch the trailer!
FOREVER
As an archive in constant change, walls surround us. As on skin, traces of urban life are shown on them. Out of the corners of our eyes, scratches, nicks, shapes, letters and words are absorbed by us in passing moments.
Watch the trailer!
ALL THE THINGS
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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COUPLING
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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GENESIS OF A PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT (NOW!)
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
More at Saatchi Art Gallery!
READING THROUGH THE BODY
What happens if a philosophical text by Friedrich Nietzsche is mirrored in the world of sign language? What happens if thoughts and signs are translated into moving pictures?
Watch the trailer!
ELISABETH VON SAMSONOW
in "THINKING NIETZSCHE". An essayistic documentary featuring interviews and performances based on Nietzsche's book "Human, All Too Human" which leads the viewer to extraordinary places of thinking.
Watch the trailer!
CENTAURUS PSYCHOGRAM
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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MARION STEINFELLNER
A reading and interview session with Marion Steinfellner about the experimental and poetic film triptych "The Remembering Movement" with Mersolis Schöne and Michael Fischer.
Watch the Interview!
DIALOGUES - EMERGENCE
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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GENESIS OF A PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT (ACTIVITY)
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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GOLDEN DREAM
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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THE ROOM
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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ACTIVITY
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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MATTHIAS VIEIDER
in "THINKING NIETZSCHE". An essayistic documentary featuring interviews and performances based on Nietzsche's book "Human, All Too Human" which leads the viewer to extraordinary places of thinking.
Watch the trailer!
DETERNITY
"Hey you! Watch out! What does the deep midnight say?" "Deternity" is an experimental poetic short film exploring Friedrich Nietzsche's poem "Once More" (also called "The Drunken Song" from the book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra").
Watch the trailer!
THINKING WITH THE HANDS
What role does physicality play in science? "Thinking with the Hands" is a short ethnographic documentary dedicated to the involvement of physicality in scientific knowledge production.
Watch the trailer!
READING THROUGH THE BODY
What happens if a philosophical text by Friedrich Nietzsche is mirrored in the world of sign language? What happens if thoughts and signs are translated into moving pictures?
Watch the trailer!
MARION STEINFELLNER
in a "Memory Sculpture" poetry-setting. "Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
MOVEMENT OF COMPENSATION
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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GRAND MACHINE
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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AWARENESS
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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KAIROS' DREAM
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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HELMUT HEIT
in "THINKING NIETZSCHE". An essayistic documentary featuring interviews and performances based on Nietzsche's book "Human, All Too Human" which leads the viewer to extraordinary places of thinking.
Watch the trailer!
LOVE - A MEMORY SCULPTURE
Moments of a memory. Abstract traces and noisy audible tissue. Fuzzy symbols of dreams pass by. Overlapping spheres of dialogues. The former movement exists as a trace of memory now. The film summarizes the results of an artistic-philosophical experiment in India - on the subject of love.
Watch the trailer!
DETERNITY
"Hey you! Watch out! What does the deep midnight say?" "Deternity" is an experimental poetic short film exploring Friedrich Nietzsche's poem "Once More" (also called "The Drunken Song" from the book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra").
Watch the trailer!
THINKING WITH THE HANDS
What role does physicality play in science? "Thinking with the Hands" is a short ethnographic documentary dedicated to the involvement of physicality in scientific knowledge production.
Watch the trailer!
LOVE - A MEMORY SCULPTURE
Moments of a memory. Abstract traces and noisy audible tissue. Fuzzy symbols of dreams pass by. Overlapping spheres of dialogues. The former movement exists as a trace of memory now. The film summarizes the results of an artistic-philosophical experiment in India - on the subject of love.
Watch the trailer!
FOREVER
As an archive in constant change, walls surround us. As on skin, traces of urban life are shown on them. Out of the corners of our eyes, scratches, nicks, shapes, letters and words are absorbed by us in passing moments.
Watch the trailer!
GENESIS OF A PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT (SHAPE)
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
More at Saatchi Art Gallery!
CAPTURING THE ESSENCE OF A TIME
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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FOREVER
As an archive in constant change, walls surround us. As on skin, traces of urban life are shown on them. Out of the corners of our eyes, scratches, nicks, shapes, letters and words are absorbed by us in passing moments.
Watch the trailer!
GENESIS OF A PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
More at Saatchi Art Gallery!
BABETTE BABICH
in "THINKING NIETZSCHE". An essayistic documentary featuring interviews and performances based on Nietzsche's book "Human, All Too Human" which leads the viewer to extraordinary places of thinking.
Watch the trailer!
MOON PSYCHOGRAM
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
More at Saatchi Art Gallery!
MARION STEINFELLNER
A reading and interview session with Marion Steinfellner about the experimental and poetic film triptych "The Remembering Movement" with Mersolis Schöne and Michael Fischer.
Watch the Interview!
READING THROUGH THE BODY
What happens if a philosophical text by Friedrich Nietzsche is mirrored in the world of sign language? What happens if thoughts and signs are translated into moving pictures?
Watch the trailer!
THE DREAM
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
More at Saatchi Art Gallery!
THINKING WITH THE HANDS
What role does physicality play in science? "Thinking with the Hands" is a short ethnographic documentary dedicated to the involvement of physicality in scientific knowledge production.
Watch the trailer!
THE TIME IN THE INNER SPACE
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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SCIENCE AND LOVE
Bridging the gap between science and love, this philosophical film essay takes viewers on a journey of discovery through the public spaces of the University of Vienna to explore the connection between reason and emotion - between science and love.
Watch the trailer!
ACOUSMATIC WINDOW
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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THE REMEMBERING MOVEMENT
What is the silent moment between thoughts, glances, and memories? "The Remembering Movement" thinks poetically about this moment. This film depicts an experimental and poetic film triptych: "Thinking-Chant", "Gaze-Frame", and "Light-Texture".
Watch the trailer!
KATHARINA KLEMENT
in a "Memory Sculpture" sound-setting. "Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
Watch the trailer!
DRAWING WITH THOUGHT
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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ELISABETH VON SAMSONOW
in "THINKING NIETZSCHE". An essayistic documentary featuring interviews and performances based on Nietzsche's book "Human, All Too Human" which leads the viewer to extraordinary places of thinking.
Watch the trailer!
THE SOUND OF MY SILENT THOUGHTS
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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PHILOSOPHICAL SELF
"Memory Sculptures" are performative compositions which translate psychic processes into direct physical actions on paper. Based on a symbol-language the displayed drawings act as thinking tools to design an internal architecture of sculptural memory.
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THE REMEMBERING MOVEMENT
What is the silent moment between thoughts, glances, and memories? "The Remembering Movement" thinks poetically about this moment. This film depicts an experimental and poetic film triptych: "Thinking-Chant", "Gaze-Frame", and "Light-Texture".
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SHARDS OF CLOUDS ARE FALLING.
This work captures the shapes of 31 " Memory Sculpture" drawings created in performative interactions with contemporary artists from the fields of literature, music, dance, painting, film, and theatre in Vienna.