bluish

a film by

Austria | 83' | 06/2024 | fiction

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.

“Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky use this specific sensitivity of queerness in order to allow the emergence of desire as the hidden protagonist of the film.”
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“Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky use this specific sensitivity of queerness in order to allow the emergence of desire as the hidden protagonist of the film.”
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Lilith Kraxner & Milena Czernovsky

Biography

Lilith Kraxner (*1995, Austria) lives and works in Vienna. After attending the Friedl Kubelka School for Independent Film, she is currently studying video and video installation at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Milena Czernovsky (*1993 Austria) has studied scenography at University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her works oscillate between stage and set design, installation and film.
After several collaborations, the duo celebrated the premiere of their feature film debut BEATRIX in 2021 at FIDMarseille.

Filmography

● bluish – 2024 – feature length
● Beatrix – 2021 – feature length

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Crew

Director: Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky
Screenplay: Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky
Producer: Panama Film: Lixi Frank, David Bohun
Junior Producer: Camille Chanel
Cinematographer: Antonia de la Luz Kašik
Sound Design: Benedikt Palier
Editor: Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky
Composer: Benedikt Palier
Art Department: Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky, Hanga Balla, Pauline Stephan.

Cast: Leonie Bramberger, Natasha Goncharova

Festivals

  • FIDMarseille – International Film Festival, France (25 – 30 June, 2024)
    International Competition Won: Grand Prix
  • Actoral Festival, France (8 September – 14 October, 2024)
    Official Selection
  • Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Romania (24 – 29 September, 2024)
    International Feature Competition Won: BIEFF Award for Best Feature
  • New York Film Festival, United States (27 September – 13 October, 2024)
    Currents
  • Black Canvas Festival de Cine Contemporáneo, Mexico (29 September – 8 October, 2024)
    New Horizons Competition
  • Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Canada (9 – 20 October, 2024)
    Panorama, in competition for the Prix Fierté
  • Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia, Chile (14 – 20 October, 2024)
    Youth Feature Competition
  • SEMINCI – Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain (17 – 27 October, 2024)
    Alchemies Official Selection Competition
  • Viennale, Austria (17 – 29 October, 2024)
    Official Selection

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Press materials

EPK: Click here

Stills, poster & directors photos: Click here

Dialogue list English, German & French: Click here

Embeddable trailer: Vimeo & Youtube 

Downloadable excerpts & trailer: Click here

SOCIAL MEDIA:
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Press quotes

“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.”
Review: Amber Wilkinson – Screen Daily

“Kraxner and Czernovsky are on their own wavelength, admiring how the subtleties of life make lasting impressions through attentive and matter-of-fact gestures.”
Review: Michael Granados – Film Fest Report

“The style and technique of evoking liminality, through which the film sticks to the insides of one’s brain, are undoubtedly effective.”
“A meditative, experimental sophomore film that is more of a trance-like cinematic concept than anything else.”
Review: Olivia Popp – Cineuropa

“With Bressonian minimalism and Akermanian intensity, Errol and Sasha’s loafing around becomes a sensible, sensitive and sensual exploration of both things and people, to which they bring a sort of truth.”
Giuseppe Di Salvatore – filmexplorer

“A journey through melancholy urban landscapes and the restlessness of youth.”
Review: Chris Jones – Overly Honest Reviews

“Kraxner and Czernovsky accommodate these varying sensitivities by resorting to different artistic forms and formats — performance, dance, VR film, songs, and even Google Earth imagery — that channel a wide range of sensory, social, and psychological experiences. While every frame and segment of the film feels meticulously structured and organized, one cannot fail to notice the inherent naturalistic aspect in them, expressed through a certain fascination of the camera with mundane, random things and events unfolding.”
Review: Öykü Sofuoğlu – In Review Online

“The film represents the vitality, but above all the vulnerability of the currently called adult youth and their precarious balance in life, using elements of daily life with a refreshing emotional sensitivity.”
Review: Mauro Lukasievicz – Caligari

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