We are delighted to share the news that Viktoria Schmid was awarded "Erste Bank Filmpreis" ex aequo for her latest work Rojo Rojo Žalia Blau at this year's Viennale International Film Festival. We quote from the jury's statement:
"Viktoria Schmid’s Rojo Žalia Blau is a landscape study – shot in the forests and seasides of Spain, Lithuania, and Lower Austria – that utilizes a simple but evocative technique. (...) The film’s technique is far more than a formal experiment: it becomes essentially a way of photographing time, with three different temporalities layered into a single (intoxicating) image and made visible only due to the movement produced by wind, wave, sun, and shadow. Achieving an astonishing fusion of color, motion, time, and philosophical inquiry, Rojo Žalia Blau also holds a special resonance in an era in which it has become particularly important to explore the space that exists between “truth” and the image." (Silvia Bohrn, Nicolas Mahler, Boris Manner, Jed Rapfogel)
Warm congrats to all award winning filmmakers.
Photo: Viennale/ Alexi Pelekanos
