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Nikolaus Geyrhalter
AT 2011 90'
⚬ Human Interest
Western standard of living and the urge to exclude others from it are the core of Geyrhalter's newest cinematic doc. Entirely shot at night, Geyrhalter takes us on a very personal journey through the Western World and the structures that guarantee our "civilized" world. Sometimes darkness can help us see things more clearly.
Director | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
Producers | Michael Kitzberger, Markus Glaser, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
Production Company | NGF - Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion |
Cinematography | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
Editor | Wolfgang Widerhofer |
Writers | Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Maria Arlamovsky |
Sound | Ingo Holub, Sabine Maier, Daniel Fritz |
Diagonale 2011 |
Hot Docs 2011 |
Milano FF 2011 |
Moscow IFF 2011 |
Sarajevo IFF 2011 |
Visions du Réel 2011 |
| Runtime | 90' |
| Spoken Languages | Dutch, English, French, German |
| Production Countries | Austria |
Nikolaus Geyrhalter was born in Vienna, Austria in 1972. Twenty-two years later he formed his own production company: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion. He made his first film, EISENERZ, in 1992. Two years later, he shot his first documentary, WASHED ASHORE (1994) it is telling a story about the river Danube and often strange idiosyncrasies of the people who live along its banks. Geyrhalter’s static-camera, well-paced observational films tackle their subjects head-on, whether it’s exploring the terrain in Chernobyl, Ukraine (PRIPYAT - 1998), tracing the route of the Dakar Rally (7915 KM - 2008), or investigating the production of processed foods (OUR DAILY BREAD - 2005). In 2003 he received Austrian State Award for Film Art and in 2008 his film OUR DAILY BREAD won the Grimme Prize.
