Screening
Sonic Cinema: Films by Viktoria Schmid and Johann Lurf
22.1.2026, ICA, London

Solo exhibition
Zeit schwindeln
19.11.2025–12.12.2025, BB15, Linz

Rojo Žalia Blau
Erste Bank Film Award – Viennale Film Festival

Jury 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: color separation photography (the basis of golden age Hollywood’s Technicolor process), by which the same scene is filmed in black-and-white using three different color filters, and then printed through the same filters, resulting in a full spectrum of visible color. But by shooting the same strip of film three successive times – rather than simultaneously, as in the manner of “true” Technicolor – Schmid is able to conjure an extraordinary, uncanny visual experience in which the colors drift in and out of sync depending on the degree of movement within the landscape or between the shots. 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.

Solo Screening
Films by Viktoria Schmid
14.6.2025, Film auf Film, Simultanhalle Köln

Art Fair
A Hello to Technicolor
available at
Viadukt Screen Prints
Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair
27.–30.3.2025, Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn

Screening
NYC RGB & WOW (Kodak)
dfi-Symposium DOING TIME – Dokumentarische Operationen im Umgang mit Zeit
9.1.2025, Filmhaus Köln

Screening
NYC RGB
YES&NO
Austrian Artist films
ICA London
12.11.2024

Screening
NYC RGB
Wavelengths/ Toronto Film Festival
9.10.2023

NYC RGB was awarded the Austrian Short Film Award and qualified for the Academy AwardⓇ at Vienna Shorts.

Jury statement: We are honoring a film that splendidly celebrates the non-repeatability of the present moment. An equally concise and immersive study of time and light, color and material, which ties in with historical film experiments and yet speaks its own language with echoes of the recent past—a past in which the metropolis is at a standstill as a topos of breathtaking modernity, while we follow the poetry of small movements. The Austrian Short Film Award goes to NYC RGB by Viktoria Schmid.

Screening
NYC RGB
Process Festival / Riga
curated by Uli Ziemons
18.5.2023

Text
about my film NYC RGB
by Victor Cos Ortega / THE GAP

Screening
A Proposal to project in 4:3
Festival Cine Sevilla
9.11.2022

 Screening
KatharinaViktoria 2(021)
Dobra Film Festival
23.9.2022

Screening
A Proposal to project in 4:3
A Proposal to project in Scope
KatharinaViktoria
KatharinaViktoria 2(021)
Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
5.–9.5.2022 

Exhibition
Indizien
Kunsthaus Graz
5.4.–18.4.2022

Screening
KatharinaViktoria
Filmhaus-Kino, Köln
14.3.2022

Screening
A Proposal to project in Scope
Prisme #4 Argentique du futur
Nantes, Saint Nazaire, La Roche / Yon
3.12.2021–13.12.2021

Solo Exhibition
Talking Screen
Künstlerhaus Wien
17.11.2021