«I felt within myself the task of the chronicler.»
Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s perspective is the long shot. If something attracts his interest, he takes a cross-border, often
world-embracing look at burning issues of global coexistence. When Covid reduced freedom of movement for all of us to a minimum,
he captured the state of emergency in Vienna with his camera, and in THE STANDSTILL he confronts us with the fragility of
our supposed security.