Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Nikolaus Geyrhalter was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1972. As a committed documentary filmmaker and photographer, he takes an offbeat and highly personal approach to current affairs, tackling issues such as ecology, economics and politics. From film to film (The Year After Dayton in 1997; Pripyat in 1999; Elsewhere in 2001), he weaves a strong and singular body of work. Our daily bread, about the agri-food industry, attracted considerable attention when it was released in 2007. Over the following decade, Geyrhalter examined night work in Europe in Abendland (2011) and urban ruins around the world in Homo Sapiens (2016). More recently, he directed Matter Out of Place (2022), about our catastrophic waste management.
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Matter Out of Place
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What if humanity was suffocating the Earth with its own waste? Nikolaus Geyrhalter's response to this brutal and provocative hypothesis is to look at how we are combating the endemic proliferation of our waste. Because the alarm bells are ringing everywhere. From Bangladesh to the Maldives by way of the Alps, the director creates a dizzying panorama of the places that receive rubbish and the st...
Notre pain quotidien
To have the right to live by "earning a living" as one earns salvation, to "convert" as one would to a religion, to "get promoted" and rise to the heavens... Yes, but beneath our work, our lives are lived. Colette, Anaïs, and Manuel deliver a story about the physical, psychological, and social marks left on us by our work, and what that says about our living conditions today. Here, we find no c...
Matter Out of Place
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What if humanity was suffocating the Earth with its own waste? Nikolaus Geyrhalter's response to this brutal and provocative hypothesis is to look at how we are combating the endemic proliferation of our waste. Because the alarm bells are ringing everywhere. From Bangladesh to the Maldives by way of the Alps, the director creates a dizzying panorama of the places that receive rubbish and the st...
Notre pain quotidien
To have the right to live by "earning a living" as one earns salvation, to "convert" as one would to a religion, to "get promoted" and rise to the heavens... Yes, but beneath our work, our lives are lived. Colette, Anaïs, and Manuel deliver a story about the physical, psychological, and social marks left on us by our work, and what that says about our living conditions today. Here, we find no c...
