In a cinema the screen needs to become invisible in order to serve as a window to the world. In Viktoria Schmid’s series A proposal to project, the screen is allowed to fulfill a different purpose. It is the main protagonist. The screen in Scope-format is set up at the Curonian Split’s seashore, in Lithuania, in a landscape corresponding with the qualities of the screen’s wide-screen-format. The film shows the screen for the duration of one day: The sun and trees perform a subtle interplay of light and shadow while the sea and wind create the surround sound of the 35 mm film.

Viktoria Schmid * 1986 Neuhofen/Ybbs Austria

Films (selection)
W O W (Kodak) (2018 a-g)
A proposal to project (in 4:3) (2016 a-g)
It’s a Dance (2014 a-g)