In Person and Carte Blanche:
Viktoria Schmid
Reflected Lights
May 28, 2026
Viktoria Schmid has established herself as a sought-after film artist since her first releases in the 2010s. Her works are shown in renowned festivals and have been the subject of survey programs, and her 16mm installations can be seen alongside her cyanotypes in exhibition halls around the world. With a background in the punk music scene and as a DJ, she had her first encounters with analog film as a graduate of the School for Independent Film Vienna and later as a founding member of filmkoop wien.
The focus of Schmid's art remains analog film and photographic technology in the broadest sense. She engages with emulsion, single frames, screen and projection formats and, most recently, analog film's early color processes. Through her personal approach to the material, sometimes raw, sometimes subtle and often poetic short films for cinemas and exhibition spaces emerge from this research.
This In Person program, a collaboration between the Austrian Film Museum, Vienna Shorts and sixpackfilm, is distinguished by the inclusion of works of kindred filmmakers alongside the artist's own films, which Schmid places in dialog with her work in the form of a Carte Blanche. This produces thematic emphases which in turn reflect Schmid's own artistic development. Not following any chronology, these filmic dialogs instead revolve more around conceptual pairings with which Schmid deals again and again, for instance material and rhythm, landscape and screen, or light and color and time. (Gerald Weber / Translation: Ted Fendt)
In collaboration with sixpackfilm and Vienna Shorts
Viktoria Schmid has established herself as a sought-after film artist since her first releases in the 2010s. Her works are shown in renowned festivals and have been the subject of survey programs, and her 16mm installations can be seen alongside her cyanotypes in exhibition halls around the world. With a background in the punk music scene and as a DJ, she had her first encounters with analog film as a graduate of the School for Independent Film Vienna and later as a founding member of filmkoop wien.
The focus of Schmid's art remains analog film and photographic technology in the broadest sense. She engages with emulsion, single frames, screen and projection formats and, most recently, analog film's early color processes. Through her personal approach to the material, sometimes raw, sometimes subtle and often poetic short films for cinemas and exhibition spaces emerge from this research.
This In Person program, a collaboration between the Austrian Film Museum, Vienna Shorts and sixpackfilm, is distinguished by the inclusion of works of kindred filmmakers alongside the artist's own films, which Schmid places in dialog with her work in the form of a Carte Blanche. This produces thematic emphases which in turn reflect Schmid's own artistic development. Not following any chronology, these filmic dialogs instead revolve more around conceptual pairings with which Schmid deals again and again, for instance material and rhythm, landscape and screen, or light and color and time. (Gerald Weber / Translation: Ted Fendt)
In collaboration with sixpackfilm and Vienna Shorts