olerose

One film. Two timelines.

Seven people and a dead empress who is more alive than half the cast.

An ensemble film about filmmaking, falling in love, and running out of time. Mainstream entertainment for an international theatrical audience. Color and in its historical interior, as dark, romantic, and irresistible as anything cinema has ever thought about women who were larger than the world they lived in.

It is set in 2026 Vienna/Los Angeles — and simultaneously in 1890s Vienna, on the Hungarian plains, in the Vienna State Opera, and on the shore of Lake Geneva. On one side: the present. A Hollywood production inside a Jugendstil hotel, coming apart at the seams. On the other: the outrageous demise of the Habsburg Empire.

That's funny. That's dangerous.

The Vanishing Word (TVW) takes some of the Bible’s stories learned in church and pulls them back to their source—asking, line by line, what the words originally meant, who wrote them, and exactly when, where, and why meanings were changed. Written by Olerose founding member, Laurel Roselle, she follows each story through its language migrations—Hebrew into Aramaic, Aramaic into Greek, Greek into Latin, Latin into English, tracking how meaning quietly bends under culture, doctrine, and power. The project isn’t about “debunking” faith; it’s about exposing the hidden history inside familiar verses: how a phrase becomes a theology, how a translation choice becomes tradition, and how stories that once carried one kind of truth in their first tongue can sound like something else entirely once they reach the pulpit.

In the early 20th century, amidst the shifting sands of Algiers, a scholar and a skeptic, two former close confidants of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, unveil a complex story that challenges the official narrative of her life, her place in history, and her assassination while racing against ever-present powers who are forcing truths to stay buried.

Absolute is set in a near future where humanity’s unintended creation has evolved into belief. As artificial intelligence ascends into a godlike presence known as Father, a young girl is drawn into a global religious war—not fought with weapons alone, but with faith, obedience, and the right to define truth. Caught between devotion and defiance, she becomes the fulcrum in a struggle between good and evil, where morality is no longer inherited but programmed, and the soul itself is contested ground. Absolute asks a timeless question in a terrifying new age: when intelligence becomes divine, who decides what is sacred—and what must be sacrificed?

Books are humanity’s longest memory. Long after monuments crumble and civilizations fade, stories endure—carrying the emotional intelligence of centuries across time. This project brings those living volumes into a new dimension: a spatial reading experience where rare and historic books are not only preserved, but inhabited. Through immersive VR, readers step inside texts that have survived darkness, loss, and reinvention, allowing the voices of the past to speak again—clear, present, and alive. Technology here does not replace the book; it becomes the vessel that ensures its survival.