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PENELOPE / IN THE SCENERY / REFLECTING / RELATIONS is an essayistic short film about love and storytelling, focussing on possible structures and forms of storytelling. The film is an experimental arrangement, a study of unconventional forms. Fragments of personal history, stories are woven together and reconstructed. An image within an image is shifted and repositioned. The cinematic narration of an experienced love is the starting point of PENELOPE / IN THE SCENERY / REFLECTING / RELATIONS. But this narration is arranged in manifold ways and on several layers: the staging is arranged as a mise en abyme. The figure speak to a a friend of hers and sometimes also towards the audience; she talks about a desired subject which is absent throughout the whole film — it`s merely a blank. In his analysis of Marcel Prousts "À la Recherche du Temps perdu" Walter Benjamin speaks of "Penelope work". By this, he means not remembrance per se, but the interweave of memories. PENELOPE / IN THE SCENERY / REFLECTING / RELATIONS is about the way how these memories could be interwoven by the means of narration. But unlike the ancient Penelope it`s not a carpet that is woven together with yarn, she’s weaving individual threads of narration together to one whole image of souvenirs, of memories.

*1970 in Linz, living and working in Vienna. Conceptual video artist mainly working with time-based media (film, video, sound). Studies of philosophy, history, history of the arts, dramatics and film theory in Vienna. Lecturer at Institute of Art and Design, Technical University of Vienna and at Film Academy Vienna. Cooperations with musicians on audiovisual projects and live performances in Austria and abroad. International screenings and exhibitions.