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Nikolaus Geyrhalter
AT 2013 75'
⚬ Science & Technology
Multi-awarded director Nikolaus Geyrhalter delivers stunning images from inside the immense CERN apparatus. Alternated with interviews with the experts who devised and operate this gigantic big bang machine, the film gives an insight into the complex experimental research institution that can be seen as a mirror of our inquisitive society.
Director | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
Producers | Michael Kitzberger, Markus Glaser, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
Production Company | Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion |
Cinematography | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
Editor | Joana Scrinzi, Andrea Wagner |
Sound | Peter Kutin |
| Runtime | 75' |
| Spoken Languages | English |
| Production Countries | Austria |
Nikolaus Geyrhalter was born in Vienna, Austria in 1972. Twenty-two years later he formed his own production company: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion. He made his first film, EISENERZ, in 1992. Two years later, he shot his first documentary, WASHED ASHORE (1994) it is telling a story about the river Danube and often strange idiosyncrasies of the people who live along its banks. Geyrhalter’s static-camera, well-paced observational films tackle their subjects head-on, whether it’s exploring the terrain in Chernobyl, Ukraine (PRIPYAT - 1998), tracing the route of the Dakar Rally (7915 KM - 2008), or investigating the production of processed foods (OUR DAILY BREAD - 2005). In 2003 he received Austrian State Award for Film Art and in 2008 his film OUR DAILY BREAD won the Grimme Prize.
