2022

THE WORLD IS BLUE AT ITS EDGES

DIE WELT IST AN IHREN RÄNDERN BLAU – THE WORLD IS BLUE AT ITS EDGESMUSTERFILMTITEL

Iris Blauensteiner, Christine Moderbacher | Österreich 2021 | 15 Min. | OmeU

13.05. | 19:00 Uhr
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
zusammen mit LETTERS2MAYBE

© Iris Blauensteiner, Christine Moderbacher

„Was könnte ich dir über die Welt erzählen, in der ich lebe?” Die Erzählerin wendet sich an ihr ungeborenes Kind und versucht Antworten zu finden.

Teils klaustrophobische Bilder werden mit intimen Notizen eines besonderen Lebensabschnittes während der Pandemie verstrickt. Basierend auf Kindheitserinnerungen spannt THE WORLD IS BLUE AT ITS EDGES einen experimentellen Bogen vom Eisernen Vorhang des Kalten Krieges über die sogenannte Flüchtlingskrise bis zur erneuten Schließung der Grenzen wegen COVID-19. Texturen von sich schließenden Toren und unüberwindbaren Mauern verschwimmen mit verpixelten Landkarten und schaff en ein subjektives Porträt einer neuen Realität in ihrer digitalen Bildwelt.

Regie: Iris Blauensteiner, Christine Moderbacher
Drehbuch: Iris Blauensteiner, Christine Moderbacher
Sound Design: Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer
Farbkorrektur: Lee Niederkofler
Stimme: Judith Mauthe
Produktion: Iris Blauensteiner, Christine Moderbacher
Lektorat: Julene Knox, Irmgard Fuchs

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SCREENINGS
2021 Wien – this human world International Human Rights Film Festival


BIOGRAPHIES
Iris Blauensteiner
* 1986, Austria
Iris Blauensteiner works as a filmmaker and author. She studied ‚Art & Digital Media‘ at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Film- and Theatretheory at the University of Vienna.
Since 2004 she is making films, especially in the fields of writing and directing. Her films, the latest The world is blue at its edges, the_other_images, Rest and Sweat were screened at international festivals. 2016 her first novel Kopfzecke was published by Kremayr & Scheriau. Since 2010 shorter texts were published in anthologies and literature magazines.
Awards and grants: Award at the film script-competition „If she can see it, she can be it“ by Drehbuchforum Vienna 2019, Award promoting literature by the City of Vienna 2018, ArtStart-Scholarship by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 2018, Artist-in-Residence ORF III & ARTE Creative 2017, Residency at Literarisches Colloquium Berlin 2017, Scholarship young talents – Grant for film by bka – Austrian Federal Chancellery Arts and Culture 2014, Award “Best Austrian Newcomer” at Vienna Independent Shorts 2014.

Christine Moderbacher
* 1982, Austria
Christine Moderbacher is a visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker (MA in visual anthropology/ documentary film at the University of Manchester). She completed her PhD at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen and is currently part of the Max Planck Research Group “Alpine Histories of Global Change: Time, Self, and the Other in the German-Speaking Alpine Region” in Halle, Germany. Her documentary films A Letter to Mohamed (SIC/CVB Brussels) and Red Earth White Snow (Pinanona Production Vienna) have been shown at international film festivals and have received a number of prizes.
Awards and grants:
2020 Artist in Residence Grant in Paliano, IT, Lower Austria Federal Chancellery
2020 Best Film at the Vizantrop Festival (Red Earth White Snow), Belgrade, SRB
2017 Sigfried Ludwig-Fonds for Postgraduate Research abroad
2015 Young Artist Award, Category: Artfilm (‘A Letter to Mohamed’) from the Lower Austrian Ministry of Art and Culture
2015 Development Trust research scholarship/ University of Aberdeen
2014 Juryprice: Best Film (A Letter to Mohamed), Sorrento Film Festival
2014 Young Artist Scholarship for Innovative Films from the Austrian Ministry of Art and Culture
2013 E.R.C (European Research Council) Advanced Grant
2011 Postgraduate Fellowship Programme, European Institutes for Advanced Study


FILMOGRAPHIES
Iris Blauensteiner
Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau / The world is blue at its edges (documentary shortfilm, 2021) the_other_images / die_anderen_bilder (avantgarde shortfilm, 2018), Rast / Rest (2016, documentary), Schwitzen / Sweat (2014, fiction shortfilm), und eine von ihnen singt / and one of them singing (2012, avantgarde shortfilm), Milch / Milk (2009, fiction shortfilm), Doublage (2007, avantgarde shortfilm)

Christine Moderbacher
Die Welt ist an ihren Rändern blau / The world is blue at its edges (2021)
Moving ants on a painted tree (2020)
Rote Erde Weisser Schnee / Red earth white snow (2018)
Lettre á Mohamed / A Letter to Mohamed, (2013)
Männer in Orange / Men at work (2010)
Harraga (2009)