The year 2000, elsewhere. 12 months. 12 episodes. Weeks, days, single moments of different ways of life. Tradition and change. People of different cultural and geographical background. A film about their life. A journey through voices and sounds from elsewhere, with no commentary added. Landscapes, outlooks on the world, outlooks on life: Desert, snow, valley, jungle, ice, rainforest, stones, swamps, mountains, the sea, forests, a South-Sea atoll. An homage to humanity at the beginning of the 21st century.
Elsewhere
Elsewhere
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- Direction: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Script: Silvia Burner, Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Cinematography: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Editing: Wolfgang Widerhofer
- Sound: Stefan Holzer
- Production: NGF - Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
- Producers: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Austria
- Production Year: 2001
- Duration: 240'
- Contact: NGF – Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
- Awards/Distinctions: Special Jury Award – IDFA 2001, Audience Award – Duisburg Film Week 2002, Ethnographic Award – Parnu International Documentary and Science FF 2002, Producers Award – Festival of Austrian Film 2003
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Nikolaus Geyrhalter is a director, producer, and cameraman, born in Vienna in 1972. In 1994, when he was 22 years old, he founded his own production company Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion which focuses on documentaries and amateur fiction. He made his first film, Eisenerz, in 1992. Two years later, he shot his first documentary, Washed Ashore (1994) narrating 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, 1999), 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 the Austrian State Award for Film Art and in 2008 his film Our Daily Bread won the Grimme Prize. Throughout the years, his films were nominated for and won numerous other awards in the world’s most renowned festivals, including (among others) IDFA, the Berlinale, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, IndieLisboa, DocSheffield, Cinéma du Réel, Diagonale, and, most recently, Locarno.
Filmography
1994 Washed Ashore
1997 The Year After Dayton
1999 Pripyat
2001 Elsewhere
2005 Our Daily Bread
2008 7915 KM
2010 Allentsteig (TV)
2011 Abendland
2012 Danube Hospital (TV)
2013 Cern (TV)
2015 Over the Years
2016 Homo Sapiens
2018 The Border Fence
2019 Earth
2022 Matter Out of Place
