I Am and Tell Me What

“I Am and Tell Me What” is a research film about a process. It is a non-chronological and fragmented record of a research investigation that Maggessi and Morusiewicz initiated in 2021, while working towards curating a Vienna-based exhibition “The Poiesis of Composting,” as well as their own artistic performative pieces, which would, in later years, become their "Wormholes" project. The film is built out of snippets from a seven-day bicycle trip that the duo took around Carinthia‘s lakes, interrupted and fuelled by references to texts, films, and music. The latter function as a transmedial bibliography to their collaborative artistic research practice. Exploring their multi-faceted relationship while digressing about academic essays, blockbuster horror movies, and arthouse videos, the filmmakers-turned-protagonists point their cameras on their immediate surroundings and on each other for the purpose of fabulating stories about convivial queer futures. All this unravels in a stream of loose associations and at a languid pace of a scorching hot summer, scored by the ongoing hum of always-present cicadas.