The white world that Nikolaus Geyrhalter showed us in Melt has everything it takes to become the spiritual testament of eternal ice. A story told through images, where suspension of judgement and resignation mingle with the wonder that such natural beauty still manages to inspire. At the Viennale 2025.
The Standstill is an extremely precious and important documentary. Probably one of the most valuable works bearing witness to the recent pandemic. A highly accurate and meticulous aesthetic, as usual in Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s works, did the rest and gave us immortal images, images that fascinate us, but, at the same time, that hit us like a punch in the stomach. At the Viennale 2023.
With Matter out of Place, as usual in Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s films, we are confronted with something impressive, something magnetically wonderful. With something that, however, with its images studied down to the smallest detail, gives us a closer look at a problem that is more urgent than ever. At the Viennale 2022.
There is a special world that is told in Washed Ashore. This, in fact, is the world of fishermen, of cemetery keepers, of Buddhist monks, of homeless people, of soldiers used to gather for their exercises far from residential areas. A world where many cultures come together with dozens of different stories. Stories and people who, however, have something great in common: the Danube.
With Earth, Geyrhalter picks up on a discourse he had already begun in 2016 with Homo Sapiens (also presented at the Berlinale), staging the human/environment combination and closely analysing the consequences it can bring.