Kurzfilme I / Othmar Schmiderer

*In the moment: The history and the open*
AT 2012/13, 33 min, German OF
Director/Screenplay/Montage: Othmar Schmiderer, Angela Summereder
Cinematography: Othmar Schmiderer
With: Bodo Hell

Philosophical positions on the question of what distinguishes humans from animals are the starting point for a film discourse in which goats act as a projection screen. Writer and herdsman Bodo Hell compares text and pasture. A parable about the relationship between man and animal, subject and object, thought and life.

*Josef Hauser: Sound and Space*
AT 1988, 55 min, German OF
Director/Camera/Montage: Othmar Schmiderer, Heinz Ebner
Concept: Othmar Schmiderer

Josef Hauser, clockmaker and Tyrolean farmer, worked for years on his vision: the construction of a sound machine made of clockworks that produces spherical bell tones and a wooden model of a Gothic tower, the architectural equivalent of his sound image. A journey into the inner and outer world of an obsession.