Nikolaus Geyrhalter

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Nikolaus Geyrhalter while shooting Sometime (2013).

Nikolaus Geyrhalter (* 1972 in Vienna ) is a director , producer and cameraman . The autodidact founded Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion at the age of 22 in the course of his first film production Angeschwemmt in 1994 , which he converted into a GmbH in 2003 with three partners .

Work and style

Geyrhalter, who always directs the camera himself in his films, is known for his very personal cinematic signature. He lets people and spaces work without comment and gives the audience room for interpretation. "Almost every kind of additional information is irrelevant or worse for Geyrhalter - and this in an era in which documentaries often seem as didactic as PowerPoint presentations," writes Rob Nelson of the Village Voice in New York. Geyrhalter's most famous works include Pripyat , Elsewhere , Our Daily Bread and Abendland .

Geyrhalter was also visiting professor in the field of photography and film at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in the winter semester 2012/2013.

“Basically, I make films that I would like to see myself. I am fascinated by zones where you normally cannot see "

- Nikolaus Geyrhalter in an interview on Our daily bread

“Wolfgang Widerhofer and I have been working together for ages. With one exception, where the timing was the same, he edited all of my films and therefore knows my way of shooting. Just as I know his way of cutting. "

- Interview with Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Filmography

From left: artist Hartmut Skerbisch (†), Wolfgang Zinggl (“weekly exam”) and director Nikolaus Geyrhalter during a conversation in Gleisdorf (2001)
  • 1994 washed up , 86 min., Documentation, direction / book / camera / production
  • 1997 The year after Dayton , 204 min., Documentary, director / script / camera / production
  • 1999 Pripyat , 100 min., Documentation, director / script / camera / production
  • 2001 Elsewhere , 240 min., Documentation, director / script / camera / production
  • 2005 Our daily bread , 92 min., Documentation, direction / book / camera / production
  • 2008 7915 KM , 106 min., Documentary film, director / camera / production
  • 2010 Allentsteig , 79 min., TV documentary, director / book / camera / production
  • 2011 Abendland , 90 min., Documentary film, director / script / camera / production
  • 2012 Donauspital , 75 min., TV documentary, director / book / camera / production
  • 2013 CERN , 75 min., TV documentary, director / camera / production
  • 2015 Over the years , 188 min., Documentary film, director / book / camera / production
  • 2016 Homo Sapiens , 94 min., Documentary film, director / camera / production
  • 2018 The structural measure , 112 min., Documentary film, director / camera / production
  • 2019 Earth , 120 min., Documentary film, director / camera / production

Awards

  • 2002: Austrian Award for Filmmaking
  • Washed ashore
    • New Cinema Prize - Vienna 1994
  • The year after Dayton
    • Vienna Film Prize 1997
    • Berliner Zeitung reader award - Berlin 1998
    • Le Prix Joris Ivens - Paris 1998
    • 3sat Documentary Award - Duisburg 1998
  • Pripyat
    • Grand Prix - Diagonal 1999
    • Prix ​​International de la SCAM - Paris 1999
    • Prix ​​de la Jury - Audience Prize, Nyon 1999
    • Grand Festival Prize - Munich 1999
    • Grand Prix - Odivelas 1999
    • European Documentary Nominee 1999
    • International Documentary Award - Istanbul 2001
  • Elsewhere
    • Special Jury Award - Amsterdam 2001
    • Ethnographic Award - Parnu 2002
    • Audience Award - Duisburg 2002
    • Prize for innovative production performance - Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, Graz 2003
  • Our daily bread
    • Best Film - Ecocinema International Film Festival Athens 2006
    • Honorable Mention - Special Jury Prize - Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Toronto 2006
    • Special John Templeton Prize - Visions du Réel, Nyon 2006
    • Special Jury Prize - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2005
    • Adolf Grimme Prize - Information & Culture category, Marl 2008
    • Nomination Prix Arte - European Film Prize 2006
    • Special Jury Prize - Jihlava 2006
    • EcoCamera Prize - Rencontres internationales du documentaire Montréal 2006
    • Best feature length documentary - Ashland Independent Film Festival 2007
    • Special Prize Jurado Pfizer - Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporaneo de la Ciudad de México 2007
    • Grand Prix - Festival International du Film d'Environnement, Paris 2006
  • 7915 KM
    • Award for best image design documentary film - Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, Graz 2009
  • Occident
    • Nomination for Best Documentary - Austrian Film Award 2012
    • Prize for Best Artistic Montage Documentary - Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, Graz 2011
    • Millenium Award - Planete Doc Film Festival, Warsaw 2011
    • The Canon Cinematography Award - Honorable Mention, Planete Doc Film Festival, Warsaw 2011
    • Grand Prix Special Mention - Split Film Festival 2011
  • Donauspital - SMZ Ost
    • Honorable Mention - World Pulse Culturgest Award, IndieLisboa International Film Festival 2013
    • Nomination Prix Europa 2012
  • Over the years
    • Grand Prix - Diagonale 2015
    • Prize for Best Artistic Montage Documentary, Diagonale 2015
    • Best Film, Human Rights Competition, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) 2015
    • Silver Eye Award for Best Documentary Film, Jihlava, International Documentary Film Festival 2015
    • 3sat Documentary Award, Duisburg Film Week 2015
    • Nomination for Best Documentary, Austrian Film Award 2016
  • Homo sapiens:
    • Wild Dreamer Award for Best Documentary, Subversive Film Festival, Zagreb 2016
    • Best sound design documentary, Diagonale 2017
  • The structural measure
  • earth

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ geyrhalterfilm.com - About. Archived from the original on December 20, 2014 ; Retrieved December 10, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Rob Nelson: Doc-Making Off the Map: Nikolaus Geyrhalter at Anthology. In: The Village Voice. January 12, 2010, accessed on December 10, 2014 (English): "Indeed, most all manner of expository info is, to Geyrhalter, extraneous or worse - this in the era of docs didactic enough to resemble PowerPoint presentations."
  3. ↑ Photography - The Applied. Retrieved December 10, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Our Daily Bread Interview. Retrieved December 10, 2014 .
  5. ^ Occident - Interview. Retrieved December 10, 2014 .
  6. ↑ orf.at - Diagonale Prize to “Ich seh Ich seh” ( Memento from March 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated March 21, 2015, accessed March 21, 2015.
  7. ↑ orf.at: "Murer" and Geyrhalter-Doku get main prizes ( Memento from March 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated March 17, 2018, accessed March 17, 2018.
  8. ^ The winners of the 34th DOK.fest Munich . Article dated May 20, 2019, accessed May 20, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Geyrhalter, Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna