NYC RGB
NYC RGB -- 16mm, 7 min
NYC RGB is part of a series of works in which Schmid looks back to early color film processes. Using a special technique of color separation, the real temporal dimension is condensed within triple exposures. The film was sent through the camera 3 times to expose the material with a different filter on each pass. First red, green, then blue. This method borrows from historical color film processes and corresponds to the separation of color by the photoreceptors in the human eye. The temporally staggered images go beyond a human experience of time/human perception. What becomes visible in the color overlays, respectively in the repetitions and the resulting differences, celebrates the past moment in its uniqueness. Each moment has never been there before and will never return. The film was shot over several months from the 20th floor of an apartment in New York City, where the artist lived in 2020 during the initial phase of the pandemic, and again in 2022. Musician Liew Niyomkarn composed a soundtrack from field recordings, recorded by Schmid during shooting the film, and synthesizer triads that are the acoustic counterpart to the RGB colors of the film.
Credit:
Director
Viktoria Schmid
Cinematography
Viktoria Schmid
Editing
Viktoria Schmid
Sound Design/music
Liew Niyomkarn
Recording
Viktoria Schmid
Supported by
Land Niederösterreich, Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport / Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport
Festivals (Selection)
2023
Graz - Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films
Victoria - Antimatter Underground Film Festival
Valdivia Int. Film Festival
Montréal - Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Santiago de Compostela - Curtocircuito
Vancouver - Int. Film Festival
Bristol - Encounters Short Film Festival
Toronto - Int. Film Festival/ Wavelengths
Edinburgh - International Film Festival
Wien - VIS Vienna Shorts (Austrian Short Film Award)
New York - Prismatic Ground Festival for experimental documentary
Zagreb - Int. Film Festival
Cork - IndieCork Film Festival
Duisburg - Filmwoche - doxs! kino
New York - Light Matter Experimental Film and Media Arts Festival
Uppsala - Int. Short Film Festival
2024
Seattle - SIFF, Seattle International Film Festival
Taipei - ba̍k-nih-á film festival
St.Petersburg - Message of Man Festival
Richmond - International Film Festival
Gyeonggi-do - DMZ DOCS, International Documentary Film Festival, Demilitarized Zone, South Korea
Birmingham - Flatpack Festival (WTF AWARD!)
Sydney/Melbourne - Static Vision
Dresden - Filmfest
Barcelona - LA INESPERADA
Braunschweig - Internationales Filmfestival