Viktoria SCHMID
Korean Premiere
This gentle trip from Viktoria Schmid surveys the architecture of Manhattan in a series of fixed-frame compositions, each exposed three times, through red, green, and blue filters. The city¡¯s range of beiges, browns, and grays remain steady, while highlights and shadows splinter into geometric arrays of color. This tension between consistency and change draws the mind toward one of the traits of modern New York which Schmid avoids: its glass-facade new construction.
NYC RGB presents Manhattan's architecture through a series of freeze-frame compositions, each exposed three times using red, green, and blue filters. Views from high-rise apartments offer visions of the city between buildings, on rooftops, and above the clouds, each scene shown through the spectrum of three successive images. Director Viktoria Schmid reframes Manhattan's landscape through the prism of natural color, evoking the textures of old Technicolor. While the city's dominant colors—beige, brown, and gray—remain steady, highlights and shadows break into geometric color arrangements. This film extends the urban symphonic trend of early experimental documentaries, harkening back to early color film processes. Shot over several months from the 20th floor of a New York City apartment building in 2020 and 2022, during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, it offers a unique perspective on urban isolation and visual beauty.
Viktoria SCHMID
Born in Austria, 1986. Viktoria is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Vienna. She is working at the interface of the cinematic and the exhibition space.NYC RGB(2023) was screened in TIFF 2023. Her installations and films have been shown internationally.