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• Michael Hiltbrunner und Philipp Messner


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• Jim Osthaarchic


• Claudia Reinhardt


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• Evelyn Rüsseler


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SISTER O´ MERCY,
Super 8 on dv, 12:30 min, no dialogues, Germany , 2008
(ex: Queer Miniature Series)

«You may laugh at an animal, but only because you have detected in it some human attitude or expression.» (Bergson)

WIR SIND ALLE KRANK. WIR FÜHLEN UNS SCHON SEIT EINIGER ZEIT NICHT MEHR AUF DER HÖHE. WIR WEINEN HALBE TAGE LANG ... VOR SCHMERZEN.
ES IST NICHT DAS, WAS IHR UNTER «SCHMERZEN« VERSTEHT. AUCH DIE FARBE UNSERER AUSFLÜSSE IST EINE ANDERE.
Our pain is visceral, extending from here on out into the finest capillars of our outmost pin-sharp needles. It comes from the lack of water. I can´t explain you what it feels like when we begin to crumble out of draught. Our sensible extensions begin to fold in in terrible spinal pain when our roots fail to suck a drop of water from the earth. The worst is you feel it coming ... and you seem to be unable to react.
AND WHAT CAN YOU DO ? RIP YOURSELF OUT AND BURST ? – THAT´S WHEN SISTER O MERCY COMES IN WITH HER SOOTHING SPIRITUAL POWERS, SHE REIKIS US BACK INTO LIVING AGAIN. SHE TRAVELS FROM ONE TO THE NEXT TO TEND TO OUR MOST PRIMORDIAL NEEDS, WATER, OINTMENT, SMALL DOSAGES OF ATTENTION.

SHE OPENS UP IN OUR MINDS A SPHERE OF PLANT COMFORT, SHE LEADS US INTO OLD AGE, COVERS ALL OUR YEARNINGS WITH A NICE AND SLIMY FILM OF TREATMENT, MASSAGES IT INTO OUR NEGLECTED BODY. NATURE HAS NEVER BEEN A GOOD MOTHER, HAS NEVER BEEN FUNNY, NEITHER.
SISTER O MERCY IS ALL THAT FOR US, CONSOLATION AND PROMISE
for all the times coming ...

Evelyn Rüsseler

 geb. 1961 in Düsseldorf. Studium der Ethnologie und Philosophie, danach Film School in Albuquerque, USA. Spezialistin in Lochkameraphotographie. Seit 2003 Film- und Videoprojekte auf DV, Super 8 und 16mm, u.a. Queer Miniature Series, Work in Progress 2005, Bambi Fragments 2008, Sister O'Mercy 2009, Unicorn Tabloid W.I.P. 2009.