Rojo Žalia Blau

Filmed over time in Spain, a Baltic Sea resort in Lithuania, and a forest in Lower Austria, the work extends the filmmaker's exploration of landscape begun in her earlier work, NYC RGB. Expanding how environments are perceived and represented, it questions what we understand as 'natural' space and how vision itself constructs terrain.

'Viktoria Schmid expands her reconstructions of analogue colour systems with an homage to glorious Technicolor. She shoots on 16mm colour negative film, running it three times through a Bolex camera and exposing it each time through different filters — red, green and blue. The three layers of colour — and time — are recorded one on top of the other and precisely synchronised. In this way, three different spans of time are transformed into a new, fictional film time, which finally elapses only when the film is projected.

Meanwhile, the soundtrack also blends the locations into a distinct auditory art-time. An artificial soundscape was recreated from field recordings — both recorded on location and supplemented by others.’

— Excerpted and adapted from Marius Hrdy, 'Rojo Žalia Blau', sixpackfilm Online Catalogue