Michaela Grill

Tomorrow, September 5th at 8.30 pm MEZ/2.30 EST I will be participating in a live talk about my film Antarctic Traces that will be screened afterwards at Geofilmfestival Terza Edizione in Padua. Join their facebook livestream if you wanna hear me talk or watch the film!

Here are the details:
These are the directors and films in competition for the fourteenth appointment with the Cittadella Geofilmfestival which will take place on Saturday 05 September 2020 from 8.30 pm, with public screenings at the Margherita Arena in the Parco della Poesia Zanzotto in Via G. Sarto, 31 in Riese Pius X (TV). Admission is free. MASOUD KAZEROUNI the hunt; MATOUS VALCHAR after; MATTHIAS LAWETZKY appalachian holler; MAZET REMI rumbu; MICHAELA GRILL antartic traces; MICHELANGELO DI PIERRO charity act MICHELE PINTO children of mother earth. We remind you that you can use the free VotApp app to vote in films in competition.

is part of the Rovereto DOC Fest in Italy on Septemeber 30th. Wish I could be there!

is part of the RECYCLED CINEMA Retrospective curated by Brigitta Burger-Utzer of sixpackfilm, Michael Loebenstein and Jurij Meden of Österreichisches Filmmuseum, presented at Viennale. Thanks!

won the Best Cinematography Award at the Universal Film Festival in Kansas City! Thank you!!!

has been invited to the Universal Film Festival in Kansas City, August 20-22. The festival is online this year and streams the films. So you can watch from anywhere.

Sophie Trudeau and me will participate at the Biennial of Moving Images in Buenos Aires with a specially commissioned piece called „edge of doom“. We are thrilled and I will post details as soon as they become available.

Exis Festival in Seoul has made a program of abstract music videos OPTRONICALS and included my video KILVO that I’ve made for Radian Vienna. It will be online from 1.8.2020-7.8.2020 at www.ex-is.org. Early Radian is still so exiting to listen to and Stefan Nemeth and Martin Brandlmayr are some of my all-time favourite collaborators and humans!

Sara A.Tremblay has created the awesome Les Encans de la quarantaine initiative that helps generate some income for artists during the pandemic. I’m very happy that they have selected one of my works „Right Whale Bay, South Georgia. 53.9859° S, 37.5988° W“. It’s a limited edition of 20, papier d’art archive sans acide, 8 po. x 10po., 2020. So if you are interested, please join the online auction here. Happy bidding!

Right Whale Bay, South Georgia. 53.9859° S, 37.5988° W is part is a series of photos I took while shooting a film about the history of whale hunting and human exploitation of the natural resources in South Georgia, Antarctica. Contact me if you want to see more pics of this series.

has been invited to International Nature and Environmental Festival in Gödöllő, Hungary, September 11-13. Thanks!

Claudia Slanar has written a beautiful essay about my work in this new book about female filmmakers from Austria edited by Isabella Reicher. It’s only available in German for now and you can order it here