A decade in newspaper headlines - Austrian artist Lisa Est has cut out, torn, and collected these headlines. She has crocheted, glued, wrapped, and randomly mixed them together, creating a multi-layered work between object and collage art as well as experimental literature. "PalimpsEst" scratches, illuminates, and recombines these layers of transformation into 9 experimental image-and-sound poems.
Title: PalimpsEst
Completion Date: October, 2022
Country of Origin: Austria
Film, Direction, Editing: Mersolis Schöne
Based on Artworks by: Lisa Est
Sound and Composition: Wolfgang Seierl
Project Type: Experimental, Short
Film Type: Artwork Film, Video Poem
Original Format: 4K, DCP
Running Time: 9 minutes
Producer: Mersolis Schöne
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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.
Title: Exposed To Each Other
Original Title: Einander Ausgesetzt
Completion Date: February, 2022
Country of Origin: Austria
Film, Direction, Editing: Mersolis Schöne
Text-Collage: Marion Steinfellner
Cast: Yuko Kaseki, Savita Rani, Marion Steinfellner
Sound and Composition: Michael Fischer
Film Type: Video Poem, Experimental, Short
Film Language: German and English
Original Format: 4K, DCP
Running Time: 10/13 minutes
Producer: Mersolis Schöne
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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" based on the poem "Since Then" by Marion Steinfellner and Mersolis Schöne.
Title: The Remembering Movement
Original Title: Die erinnernde Bewegung
Completion Date: July, 2020
Country of Origin/Filming: Austria
Film, Direction, Skript, Voice: Mersolis Schöne
Painting, Poems, Voice: Marion Steinfellner
Sound and Composition: Michael Fischer
Film Type: Video Art, Experimental, Short
Film Language: German and English
Original Format: 4K, DCP
Running Time: 8 minutes 45 seconds
Producer: Mersolis Schöne
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Moments of a memory. Abstract traces and noisy audible tissue. Fuzzy symbols of dreams pass by. Overlapping spheres of dialogues. Jumping details of resistance. Fluid moments of realignment and vibrant togetherness of clarity. The chirping of crickets, rain, and cowbell sounds grow more compressed and freeze. Somebody speaks in a fragmentized way. The former movement exists as a trace of memory now.
Title: Love - A Memory Sculpture
Original Title: Liebe - Eine Gedächtnisskulptur
Completion Date: August, 2019
Country of Origin/Filming: Austria/India
Film and Drawings: Mersolis Schöne
Sound and Composition: Katharina Klement
Film Type: Video Art, Experimental, Short
Film Language: English
Original Format: 4K, DCP
Running Time: 3 minutes 52 seconds
Producer: Mersolis Schöne
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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. They reveal our longing for continuity, visibility and the expression of becoming. Today’s manifestations of eternity will be nothing more than tomorrow’s background for future messages: constant change and eternity at the same time - being preserved in change.
Title: Forever
Completion Date: April, 2019
Country of Origin/Filming: Austria/India
Direction: Mersolis Schöne
Film Type: Video Art, Docu, Experimental, Short
Film Language: English
Original Format: 4k, DCP
Running Time: 25 seconds
Producer: Mersolis Schöne
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"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"). By using a combination of performance and projection techniques, the film depicts a protagonist being confronted with his own psychological dilemmas in a scene dominated by alternating light and shadows.
Title: Deternity
Completion Date: May, 2018
Country of Origin: Austria
Direction: Evi Jägle
and Mersolis Schöne
Film Type: Experimental, Short
Film Language: English
Original Format: Digital, 4K, Color
Screening Format: 4K, DCP
Running Time: 2 minutes 45 seconds
Producer: Mersolis Schöne
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"THINKING NIETZSCHE" is 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. Confronted with "a supermarket of ideas", each time we read "ends with an orgasm of insight". Will his texts go on to change our lives, identities, the world?
Title: THINKING NIETZSCHE
Original Title: NIETZSCHE DENKEN
Completion Date: February, 2018
Country of Filming: AT, CH, USA
Director: Mersolis Schöne
Assistant Director: Joel Szonn
Music: James Delaney, Friedrich Nietzsche
Film Type: Documentary
Film Language: German, English
Cast: Babette Babich, Arno Böhler, Helmut Heit...
Screening Format: 4K, DCP
Running Time: 96 minutes
Producer: Mersolis Schöne
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What happens if a philosophical text is mirrored in the world of sign language? What happens if thoughts and signs are translated into moving pictures? This short ethnographic documentary showing how a woman who is deaf tries to comprehend and embody a text by Friedrich Nietzsche in an experimental setting.
Title: Reading Through the Body
Original Title: Körpersprache
Completion Date: May, 2016
Country of Origin: Austria
Author and Director: Mersolis Schöne
Reader and Performer: Lena Schramek
Camera, Cut, Sound Design: Christan Venosa
Assist. Director, Support: Emanuel Megersa
Production Assistant, Interviewer: Ronja Thum
Film Type: Documentary, Short
Screening Format: HD, DCP
Running Time: 7 minutes 42 seconds
Presented by: Moving Thought
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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. We almost invariably picture knowledge generation as an eminently cerebral, cognitive work process where the body is all but irrelevant. In contrast, this film investigates the role played by hands in daily laboratory work routine.
Title: Thinking with the Hands
Original Title: Das denkende Tun der Hände
Completion Date: May, 2015
Country of Origin: Austria
Direction: Mersolis Schöne
Assistant Director: L. Constantin, T. Seck
Film Type: Documentary, Short
Film Language: German / English
Screening Format: 4K, DCP
Running Time: 9 minutes 28 seconds
Presented by: Moving Thought
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Bridging the gap between science and love, this 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. Within this philosophical experiment, contrasting images arise: a monument to rationality and a beating heart; a love letter and a technical definition of love.
Title: Science and Love
Original Title: Wissenschaft und Liebe
Completion Date: October, 2014
Country of Origin: Austria
Direction: Mersolis Schöne
Voices: Linda Erker, Jürgen Stowasser
Film Type: Philosophical Film Essay
Film Language: German / English
Screening Format: 4K, DCP
Running Time: 9 minutes 39 seconds
Presented by: Moving Thought
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