bluish

**Bluish **
by Lilith Kraxner & Milena Czernovsky
2024, Austria, 83 minutes, English and German w/ English subtitles

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. Dutch premiere.

Winner of the Grand Prix of the FID Marseille, June 2024.
From the Jury Report:
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.

about the directors: 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.

This screening is the ninth part of the ongoing OS MUTANTES series at WORM. Inspired by Theresa Villaverde’s film of the same name, we use the concept of the mutant as a way to reframe growing up as a transformative process, rather than the typical "coming of age" narrative that often feels focused on individual success and self-improvement. The series includes films by Catharine Breillat, Lucrecia Martel, Paul B. Preciado, Wang Bing, and many others.

Cineville valid at the door!