bluish
A feature film by Lilith Kraxner & Milena Czernovsky
AT, 82 min, 16mm
Errol and Sasha, two somewhat disoriented characters in their twenties, are each aimlessly drifting through a city's gloomy winter days. Whilst casting a soft gaze on fragments of their everyday lives, people, stories, places and realities start to overlap and intertwine. Bluish describes a fragile state of being, a condition or rather an atmosphere of ambiguity and longing.
BLUISH is a green production.
SALES/DISTRIBUTION
World Sales: Square Eyes
Distributor AT: Filmgarten
FUNDERS/TV
ÖFI+, BMKOES, Filmfonds Wien, ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen, CineArt Steiermark
FESTIVALS
FID Marseille 2024 - International Competition
Viennale - Offical Selection
Actoral Festival - Offical Selection
Bucharest International Experimental Festival - International Feature Competition
New York Film Festival - Currents
Black Canvas Festival de Cine Contemporáneo - New Horizons Competition
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma - Youth Feature Competition
SEMINCI - Valladolid International Film Festival - Alchemies Official Selection Competition
AWARDS
FID Marseille 2024
Grand Prix of the International Competition
Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival 2024
BIEFF Award for Best Feature
Mia Market Rome 2023
Screen International Award
ON INSTAGRAM
CREDITS
With Leonie Bramberger and Natasha Goncharova
Directors, Script & Editors: Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky
Cinematography: Antonia de la Luz Kašik
Assistant Director & Creative Consultant: Lara Bellon
Sound & Music: Benedikt Palier
Production Manager: Flora Mair
Unit Manager: Saskia Arth
Dramaturgic Consultant: Tizza Covi
Script Consultant & Set Manager: Mel Berger
Camera Assistant: Paula Tschira
Art Depatement: Hanga Balla, Pauline Stephan
Additional Sound: Chuqi Lu
Sound Assistant: Nora Czamler, Moritz Nahold
Sound Mixing: Nora Czamler
Color Grading: Alessandro Pelliccia Technical
Assistant & Outside Eye: Hannes Böck
Second Assistant Director: Sarah Hichri
Graphic Design & Typography: David Einwaller
Intern: Jonas Schwaiger
Producers: Lixi Frank, David Bohun
Junior Producer: Camille Chanel
PRESS
«[...] the style and technique of evoking liminality, through which the film sticks to the insides of one’s brain, are undoubtedly effective [...] Kraxner and Czernovsky place viewers in a state of remembrance, where time isn’t linear and memories pop up through the fog [...] a meditative, experimental sophomore film that is more of a trance-like cinematic concept than anything else [...] » Olivia Popp, CINEUROPA
«[...] sublime pursuit of connection and longing within the ordinary [...] Kraxner and Czernovsky are on their own wavelength, admiring how the subtleties of life make lasting impressions through attentive and matter-of-fact gestures. [...] » Michael Granados, Film Fest Report
«[...] The camera might be static but there is almost always a feeling of movement. It generates the hopeful sensation that these women have a freedom to do what they want, no matter how constrictive the world might sometimes be. [...] Bluish feels like a Generation Z cousin of Millennial mumblecore, the script stripped away so that we divine these young people’s moods as much by gesture and look as talk [...] Bluish is less about plot development than the characters’ quotidian existence in the liminal space that exists between teenagedom and fully fledged adulthood [...] » Amber Wilkinson, Screendaily
«[...] a journey through melancholy urban landscapes and the restlessness of youth [...] » Chris Jones, Overly Honest Reviews
«[...] A Pale Blue Glance at the Dullness of Life [...] despite the suggestion of the title, the dull filters of blue are no more than a theoretical reference or a game between the two filmmakers, and that’s so nice to watch. For a film with a premise that could easily send you to the land of boredom, “bluish” is ultimately a far more complex voyage [...] » Sofia Topi, High on Films
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