Michaela Grill

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

Martin Brandlmayr/Michaela Grill/Matija Schellander audiovisual improvisations on May 6th at Alte Schmiede Vienna POSTPONED

cityscapes screening at Festival international de musique actuelle Victoriaville, Canada, May 14-17 was unfortunately CANCELED too.

The planned live performance to open The Musical Years: 1920–2020 at VOX centre de l’image contemporaine has been postponed. More news to follow soon.