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Nicolaas Schmidt is a european Gréyalisateur and Dozing Artist (Concept, Photo, Video) based in Hamburg.
He started dreaming at the age of four after visiting the movie theater in his socialist small town southern of Leipzig for the very first time. After integration of GDR into BRD, there were some ambitions with commissioned photography in addition to working as a graphic designer for an advertising agency in Leipzig. After moving to Hamburg in 2007 he studied Mixed and Time Based Media as well Visual Communication / Film (at/with). Finally he graduated in 2016 with honors at the Univertity of Fine Arts in Hamburg.
His works are shown at international film festivals and art institutions (including HKW Berlin, CWB Paris, Museum of the Moving Image New York City, Arts&Archives Los Angeles, Filmforum Museum Ludwig Köln, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, Locarno Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Black Canvas Film Festival Mexico City, Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Athens Film and Video Festival, Vilnius Film Festival, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, HMKV Dortmund, Mousonturm Frankfurt/Main, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Museum Für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Cinemateca Portuguesa Lisbon, Cinemateca Uruguaya Montevideo, FilminLatino Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, Gran Lux Saint-Etienne, Filmhuis Cavia Amsterdam, Pylon-Lab Dresden, Galerie Kub and D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, Ausstellungsraum Klingental Basel, Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts, NNYOC Gallery and Kling&Bang Gallery Reykjavik, Schloss Kalsdorf Ilz/Graz, Kunstverein Lüneburg, Erarta Museum St. Petersburg), as well as some Goethe-Institutes (Sofia, Marseille, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata) and in the context of seminars and work presentations at various universities (DFFB Berlin, HFBK Hamburg, HGB Leipzig, UDK Berlin, HFF Potsdam, CAU Kiel, HBK Braunschweig, Zurich University of the Arts - Congress of the German Society for Aesthetics, BMK Hamburg, SRH Berlin, HS RheinMain Wiesbaden).
Schmidt is a founding member of VETO Film, EndJoy Antitainment and Eternaltrend Intermediate, a production and distribution lab for audiovisual simplicities, that for example offers the color gradient online series "36000 Frames RGB".
Since 2018 he is working at the art office "Doppelte Unendlichkeit" with Anne Döring. Currently he is available.
In his minimal moving images, lost futures meet nostalgic satisfaction, media sadness meets sensual awareness. Almost everything about them is easy, except their consumption.
This attitude gives rise to a concentrated game with advertising, which has forgotten what it is advertising, with time, which has forgotten why it is passing, and with cinema, which has forgotten where it takes place. The romantic conceptualism of his works caresses duration, stretches and condenses it, occasionally tipping over into sensitive gestures that seem to comfortingly and intimately embrace even the most burnt-out trends of criticism. A visual reckoning with a "neurotically naive" (W. Kempf) era that perhaps never existed.
(Max Richter)
His idiosyncratic films are a reflected and at the same time deeply sensual examination of society, space and time. By dispensing with classic dramaturgical structures, they open up new spaces of perception and allow the cinema to be experienced as a place of experience without losing sight of our critical view of today.
(Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck)
AWARDS/GRANTS
2025
Message To Men Intl. Film Festival St. Petersburg, Jury Diploma (In Silico - Int. Competition of Experimental Films)
FFA German Federal Film Board, Production Funding „September Afternoon“
MOIN Film Fund, Production Funding „September Afternoon“
2024
Oberhausen Intl. Short Film Festival, Special Mention (German Competition)
MOIN Film Fund, Production Funding „Something New Has Begun“ (WT)
2022
Black Canvas Film Festival, Best Film (Beyond the Canvas)
Athens Intl. Film and Video Festival, Best Narrative Feature
Sicilia Queer Intl. New Visions Filmfest, Best Feature
Sicilia Queer Intl. New Visions Filmfest, Special Mention (National Union of Italian Film Critics, SNCCI)
2021
Locarno Film Festival, Special Mention (Leopards of Tomorrow)
Bucharest Intl. Experimental Film Festival, Best Direction
Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis, Sonderpreis Mittellanger Film
Festival dei Popoli Firenze, Best Med-Lenght Film
FBW Film Predicate: Especially Valuable „Inflorescence“
FFHSH, Scenario Funding „Something New Has Begun“ (WT)
2020
Vilnius Intl. Film Festival, Special Mention (Intl. Shorts)
FFHSH, Production Funding „First Time“
2019
Preis der Nationalgalerie, Nomination Förderpreis für Filmkunst
2018
VDFK German Film Critics Award, Best Short Film 2017
Glasgow Short Film Festival, Special Mention (Intl. Competition)
Thai Short Film and Video Festival, "R.D. Pestonji Medal" (Best Short Film)
2017
Berlin Intl. Film Festival, Perspektive Special Jury Prize
First Steps German Film Academy Award, Best Medium-Length Fiction
2015
Intl. Short Film Festival Hamburg, Jury Award
2013
Karl H. Ditze Stiftung, Annual Scholarship
2011
Message To Man Intl. Film Festival St. Petersburg, Jury Diploma (In Silico - Int. Competition of Experimental Films)
FILMOGRAPHY (FULL Script&Direction)
[ undisclosed { commission
2026
[ SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON (Concept Fiction)
[ LINEAR ENDJOY] (Concept Short)
[ ANOTHER NIGHT AT 11PM - SLOWREEL-04 (Riolino Short)
{ L. MEERIONE: QUEL MOMENTO (Music Video)
2025
{ L. MEERIONE: TREMBLING PAWS (Music Video)
2024
• LIKE HORSES STANDING IN THE RAIN (Docu Diary Essay)
[ NOVEMBER TRAM RIDE (Riolino Short) shelved
[ SNHB (Teaser)
2022
• CINÉMOON (Cinema Theater Installation Performance)
[ RIOLINO LEAVING KINDERGARDEN (Riolino Short) shelved
2021
• FIRST TIME [The Time For All But Sunset - VIOLET] (Concept Fiction)
2020
• INFLORESCENCE - SLOWLOOP-05
2019
• BELIEVE - SLOWREEL-03 (Docu Concept Short)
2018
{ THERNST: THE LOTTERY [Who's The Next One] (MuVi)
{ MOON ZOOM (Trailer for 34th Hamburg Intl. Short Film Festival)
{ M. MELIÁN: JARDIN EXOTIQUE (Music Video)
[ VERY NICE GRADIENTS… (Concept Short) shelved
2017
• FINAL STAGE [The Time For All But Sunset - BGYOR] (Concept Fiction)
2016
• COMPARE - SLOWLOOP-01 (*2011)
[ 36KFRGB SPECIAL 66: Bearing For Dreams (Cinematic Dream Opener)
{ WASSERMUSIK (Teaser for Michaela Melián)
2015
• AUTUMN - SLOWREEL-02 (Essay Short)
• 36KFRGB SPECIAL 29: Die Manifestation Des Kapitalismus In Unserem Leben Ist Die Traurigkeit (Color Episode Footage Collage)
2014
• 36000 FRAMES RGB [36KFRGB] (2013-2014 Color Concept Series)
• LEAVING MONOCHROMIA - SLOWREEL-01 (Essay Short)
2013
• BREAK - SLOWLOOP-04 (Slide Show Short)
• 36KFRGB - RGB/BTW [Du Und Wir] (Promo Short)
[ TEN TABLETS (Experimental Setup) shelved
2012
• FOREVER - SLOWLOOP-03
[ APPARENT WINDS (Concept Fiction) shelved
{ VERSE ZUR FURCHT (Commissional) shelved
2011
• DIE REISE MIT DER EISENBAHN HAT SICH DURCHAUS EIN WENIG GELOHNT (Diary Essay)
[ STUDIEN ZUR REKONSTRUKTION (Experim. Study) shelved
2010
• OHNE SCHLECHTES GEWISSEN GENIESSEN (Perf. Short)
• DER LAUF UND CHOPIN (Concept Short)
[ THE NICEST PLACE (Concept Docu Fiction) shelved
2009
• SENSE+INNOCENCE (Footage Concept Short)
[ EIN NEUR MORGEN (Performance Short) shelved
[ MAY I ASK (Performance Short) shelved, lost
2008
• NEUSEENLAND (Docu Essay Short)
[ GREEN GROWS THE GREY (Grey Concept Short) shelved
[ NEXT IN LINE (Doku Short) shelved
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Nicolaas Schmidt is a european Gréyalisateur and Dozing Artist (Concept, Photo, Video) based in Hamburg.
He started dreaming at the age of four after visiting the movie theater in his socialist small town southern of Leipzig for the very first time. After integration of GDR into BRD, there were some ambitions with commissioned photography in addition to working as a graphic designer for an advertising agency in Leipzig. After moving to Hamburg in 2007 he studied Mixed and Time Based Media as well Visual Communication / Film (at/with). Finally he graduated in 2016 with honors at the Univertity of Fine Arts in Hamburg.
His works are shown at international film festivals and art institutions (including HKW Berlin, CWB Paris, Museum of the Moving Image New York City, Arts&Archives Los Angeles, Filmforum Museum Ludwig Köln, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, Locarno Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Black Canvas Film Festival Mexico City, Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Athens Film and Video Festival, Vilnius Film Festival, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, HMKV Dortmund, Mousonturm Frankfurt/Main, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Museum Für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Cinemateca Portuguesa Lisbon, Cinemateca Uruguaya Montevideo, FilminLatino Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, Gran Lux Saint-Etienne, Filmhuis Cavia Amsterdam, Pylon-Lab Dresden, Galerie Kub and D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, Ausstellungsraum Klingental Basel, Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts, NNYOC Gallery and Kling&Bang Gallery Reykjavik, Schloss Kalsdorf Ilz/Graz, Kunstverein Lüneburg, Erarta Museum St. Petersburg), as well as some Goethe-Institutes (Sofia, Marseille, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata) and in the context of seminars and work presentations at various universities (DFFB Berlin, HFBK Hamburg, HGB Leipzig, UDK Berlin, HFF Potsdam, CAU Kiel, HBK Braunschweig, Zurich University of the Arts - Congress of the German Society for Aesthetics, BMK Hamburg, SRH Berlin, HS RheinMain Wiesbaden).
Schmidt is a founding member of VETO Film, EndJoy Antitainment and Eternaltrend Intermediate, a production and distribution lab for audiovisual simplicities, that for example offers the color gradient online series "36000 Frames RGB".
Since 2018 he is working at the art office "Doppelte Unendlichkeit" with Anne Döring. Currently he is available.
In his minimal moving images, lost futures meet nostalgic satisfaction, media sadness meets sensual awareness. Almost everything about them is easy, except their consumption.
This attitude gives rise to a concentrated game with advertising, which has forgotten what it is advertising, with time, which has forgotten why it is passing, and with cinema, which has forgotten where it takes place. The romantic conceptualism of his works caresses duration, stretches and condenses it, occasionally tipping over into sensitive gestures that seem to comfortingly and intimately embrace even the most burnt-out trends of criticism. A visual reckoning with a "neurotically naive" (W. Kempf) era that perhaps never existed.
(Max Richter)
His idiosyncratic films are a reflected and at the same time deeply sensual examination of society, space and time. By dispensing with classic dramaturgical structures, they open up new spaces of perception and allow the cinema to be experienced as a place of experience without losing sight of our critical view of today.
(Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck)
AWARDS/GRANTS
2025
Message To Men Intl. Film Festival St. Petersburg, Jury Diploma (In Silico - Int. Competition of Experimental Films)
FFA German Federal Film Board, Production Funding „September Afternoon“
MOIN Film Fund, Production Funding „September Afternoon“
2024
Oberhausen Intl. Short Film Festival, Special Mention (German Competition)
MOIN Film Fund, Production Funding „Something New Has Begun“ (WT)
2022
Black Canvas Film Festival, Best Film (Beyond the Canvas)
Athens Intl. Film and Video Festival, Best Narrative Feature
Sicilia Queer Intl. New Visions Filmfest, Best Feature
Sicilia Queer Intl. New Visions Filmfest, Special Mention (National Union of Italian Film Critics, SNCCI)
2021
Locarno Film Festival, Special Mention (Leopards of Tomorrow)
Bucharest Intl. Experimental Film Festival, Best Direction
Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis, Sonderpreis Mittellanger Film
Festival dei Popoli Firenze, Best Med-Lenght Film
FBW Film Predicate: Especially Valuable „Inflorescence“
FFHSH, Scenario Funding „Something New Has Begun“ (WT)
2020
Vilnius Intl. Film Festival, Special Mention (Intl. Shorts)
FFHSH, Production Funding „First Time“
2019
Preis der Nationalgalerie, Nomination Förderpreis für Filmkunst
2018
VDFK German Film Critics Award, Best Short Film 2017
Glasgow Short Film Festival, Special Mention (Intl. Competition)
Thai Short Film and Video Festival, "R.D. Pestonji Medal" (Best Short Film)
2017
Berlin Intl. Film Festival, Perspektive Special Jury Prize
First Steps German Film Academy Award, Best Medium-Length Fiction
2015
Intl. Short Film Festival Hamburg, Jury Award
2013
Karl H. Ditze Stiftung, Annual Scholarship
2011
Message To Man Intl. Film Festival St. Petersburg, Jury Diploma (In Silico - Int. Competition of Experimental Films)
FILMOGRAPHY (FULL Script&Direction)
[ undisclosed { commission
2026
[ SEPTEMBER AFTERNOON (Concept Fiction)
[ LINEAR ENDJOY] (Concept Short)
[ ANOTHER NIGHT AT 11PM - SLOWREEL-04 (Riolino Short)
{ L. MEERIONE: QUEL MOMENTO (Music Video)
2025
{ L. MEERIONE: TREMBLING PAWS (Music Video)
2024
• LIKE HORSES STANDING IN THE RAIN (Docu Diary Essay)
[ NOVEMBER TRAM RIDE (Riolino Short) shelved
[ SNHB (Teaser)
2022
• CINÉMOON (Cinema Theater Installation Performance)
[ RIOLINO LEAVING KINDERGARDEN (Riolino Short) shelved
2021
• FIRST TIME [The Time For All But Sunset - VIOLET] (Concept Fiction)
2020
• INFLORESCENCE - SLOWLOOP-05
2019
• BELIEVE - SLOWREEL-03 (Docu Concept Short)
2018
{ THERNST: THE LOTTERY [Who's The Next One] (MuVi)
{ MOON ZOOM (Trailer for 34th Hamburg Intl. Short Film Festival)
{ M. MELIÁN: JARDIN EXOTIQUE (Music Video)
[ VERY NICE GRADIENTS… (Concept Short) shelved
2017
• FINAL STAGE [The Time For All But Sunset - BGYOR] (Concept Fiction)
2016
• COMPARE - SLOWLOOP-01 (*2011)
[ 36KFRGB SPECIAL 66: Bearing For Dreams (Cinematic Dream Opener)
{ WASSERMUSIK (Teaser for Michaela Melián)
2015
• AUTUMN - SLOWREEL-02 (Essay Short)
• 36KFRGB SPECIAL 29: Die Manifestation Des Kapitalismus In Unserem Leben Ist Die Traurigkeit (Color Episode Footage Collage)
2014
• 36000 FRAMES RGB [36KFRGB] (2013-2014 Color Concept Series)
• LEAVING MONOCHROMIA - SLOWREEL-01 (Essay Short)
2013
• BREAK - SLOWLOOP-04 (Slide Show Short)
• 36KFRGB - RGB/BTW [Du Und Wir] (Promo Short)
[ TEN TABLETS (Experimental Setup) shelved
2012
• FOREVER - SLOWLOOP-03
[ APPARENT WINDS (Concept Fiction) shelved
{ VERSE ZUR FURCHT (Commissional) shelved
2011
• DIE REISE MIT DER EISENBAHN HAT SICH DURCHAUS EIN WENIG GELOHNT (Diary Essay)
[ STUDIEN ZUR REKONSTRUKTION (Experim. Study) shelved
2010
• OHNE SCHLECHTES GEWISSEN GENIESSEN (Perf. Short)
• DER LAUF UND CHOPIN (Concept Short)
[ THE NICEST PLACE (Concept Docu Fiction) shelved
2009
• SENSE+INNOCENCE (Footage Concept Short)
[ EIN NEUR MORGEN (Performance Short) shelved
[ MAY I ASK (Performance Short) shelved, lost
2008
• NEUSEENLAND (Docu Essay Short)
[ GREEN GROWS THE GREY (Grey Concept Short) shelved
[ NEXT IN LINE (Doku Short) shelved