Sonic Cinema presents a programme of ten short films, bringing together the practices of Vienna-based filmmakers Viktoria Schmid and Johann Lurf for the first time.
BOOKING: https://ica.art/films/sonic-cinema-viktoria-schmid-johann-lurf
Viktoria Schmid and Johann Lurf work at the intersection of the cinema and exhibition space, exploring shared interests in cinematic technologies, landscape, and human perception. Each working with a wide variety of mediums and formats including 35mm CinemaScope, 16mm, stereoscopic 3D, video, photography, and installation their works are characterised by their thoughtful and surprising reconfigurations of the world around us. Though sharing similarities in subject matter and concepts, Schmid and Lurf’s differing approaches to their individual practices results in the distinctive bodies of work this programme seeks to juxtapose.
Viktoria Schmid and Johann Lurf will be present for a Q&A after the screening.
- A Proposal to project in 4:3, 2016, 2 min., 16mm
- W O W (Kodak), 2018, 2 min., 35mm
- NYC RGB, 2023, 7 min., 16mm
- Rojo Žalia Blau, 2025, 10 min., DCP
- A Proposal to project in Scope, 2020, 8 min., 35mm
- ACHTUNG / HALLO 35, 2010, 2’30 min., 35mm
- RECONNAISSANCE, 2012, 5 min., DCP
- Revolving Rounds, (with Christina Jauernik), 2024, 11 min., 35mm
- Cavalcade, 2019, 5 min., 35mm
- Vertigo Rush, 2007, 19 min., DCP
Special thanks to Viktoria Schmid, Johann Lurf, Vanessa Fewster (Austrian Cultural Forum London), and Gerald Weber (sixpackfilm).
Sonic Cinema is a research project and event series by Oliver Dickens, exploring the intersection of sound and moving-image. It is dedicated to the memory of Louis Benassi. Sign up to the Sonic Cinema newsletter here.
Supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum London and sixpackfilm.







