MÔNOSIS/MONOSIS (How We Live Together)

 

MÔNOSIS/MONOSIS is the second short film in the cinematic monologue reading series How We Live Together with acclaimed film and TV actor Bill Sage based on French philosopher Roland Barthes lecture series How To Live Together on various formats of  ideorrythmic living-together   Created during the pandemic of 2020 as response to isolation and societal changes, Bill Sage adds a warmth of spirit through his  narrated interpretation of the academic and literary philosophical text.

MÔNOSIS/MONOSIS examines aspects of isolation and the separation between the compartments of our inner selves, leading to conflict and displacement from unity. Barthes presents philosophical investigations on the monastic living format as a participatory yet distanced form of living in order to maintain tolerance of the repressed and a sense of unity with the utopic. The short films are considered art works for exhibition but also for regular short film screenings and festivals, and are taking place as ongoing remote collaborations between artist Anne Katrine Senstad, actor Bill Sage and composer/sound producer JG Thirlwell as the world keeps changing. The texts for each short film in How We Live Together are chapters that derive from French philosopher Roland Barthes' 1977 lecture series on ideorrythmic living formats; How To Live Together: Novelistic simulations of some everyday spaces. The first film UTOPIA was created in context of Senstad's solo exhibition How We Live Together at Yi Gallery and screened on Streaming Museum fall of 2020 as part of Senstad's ongoing critical research project Capitalism in the Public Realm.