Serafin is a Vienna based cinematographer who graduated MA with Distinction at the Vienna Film Academy.
His (camera-)graduate shortfilm Maybes | Erdbeerland premiered at Viennale 2012 and received the Austrian Film price in the short film section. His first camerawork on a feature-length documentary Lampedusa in Winter premiered at Semaine de la Critique in Locarno 2015 and received national and international awards. His camerawork for Gwendolyn was awarded Best Cinematography of a Documentary at Diagonale Festival of Austrian Films 2018. Nobadi directed by Karl Marcovics is his first camerawork on a feature-length narrative. In 2019 he collaborated as DP for Ulrich Seidl, shooting the last part of his upcoming feature film.
Documentary films (selected credits):
Stories from the Sea
documentary | AT 2020 | 85 min | Fahrenheit films
director Jola Wieczorek
Anomalie
documentary | AT 2018 | 90 min | producers, writers Richard Wilhelmer & Daniel Haingartner
director Richard Wilhelmer
premiered at Diagonale Festival of Austrian Films 2018
Austrian Documentary Award – ADA 2019
Gwendolyn
documentary | AT 2017 | 85 min | Soleil Film
director Ruth Kaaserer
premiered at Viennale 2017
Erste Bank MoreVALUE Film Award - Viennale 2017
Franz Grabner Prize - Diagonale Festival of Austrian Films 2018
Best Cinematography of a Documentary - Diagonale Festival of Austrian Films 2018
Best Artistic Editing of a Documentary - Diagonale Festival of Austrian Films 2018
They Called Him Spencer | segments 'Riccardo Pizzuti' and 'Bud Spencer'
documentary | AT 2017 | 122 min | epo-film
director Karl-Martin Pold
Lampedusa in Winter
documentary | AT, I, CH 2015 | 93 min | Taskovski Films ltd.
director, producer Jakob Brossmann
Boccalino d' Oro Independent Critics Award - Semaine de la Critique, 2015 Locarno international Film Festival
Vienna Film Award and Erste Bank MoreVALUE Film Award - Viennale 2015
Audience Award - Duisburg Documentary Film Festival 2015
Best Documentary – Austrian Film Award 2015
Île d'Or Award – Festival International du Film Insulaire de l’Île de Groix 2016
etc.
Narrative (selected credits):
Brothers (working title) | segment 'Romania in summer'
feature film | AT 2020 | Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion
director Ulrich Seidl
Nobadi
feature film | AT 2019 | 90 min | epo-film
director Karl Markovics
premiered at Toronto International Film Festival 2019
100 EUR
shortfilm | AT 2018 | 32 min
director Aleksey Lapin
premiered at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2019
Grand Jury Prize European Student Films – Angers European Film Festival 2019
Bringing in the Wood
shortfilm | AT 2014 | 17 min | sixpack film
director Simon Spitzer
premiered at Viennale 2014
Special Mention – Stuttgarter Filmwinter 2015
Winner Student Competition – Sleepwalkers International Filmfestival 2016
Erdbeerland | Maybes
shortfilm | AT 2012 | 32 min | sixpack film
director Florian Pochlatko
premiered at Viennale 2012
Best Austrian Shortfilm 2013 - Austrian Film Academy Awards 2013
Best Shortfilm - Diagonale Festival of Austrian Films 2013
Mainprize - Lviv - Wiz-Art International Short Film Festival 2013
Golden Bobby - FAK Int. Student Film Festival Vienna
Experimental films (selected credits):
Hypnodrom
experimental short film | AT 2017 | 5 min
director Richard Wilhelmer
producers Daniel Haingartner, Serafin Spitzer, Richard Wilhelmer
Apariciones | segment: 'woman on the meadow'
experimental film, long shot | AT 2014 | 5min
director Luz Olivares
premiered at Vienna Independent Shorts 2014
Music video (selected credits):
God of Ghosts | Zebra Katz & Leila Arab
music video | AT 2015 | 12 min
director Florian Pochlatko
cinematography in collaboration with Anselm Hartmann
Austrian Music Video Award – Vienna Independent Shorts 2016
Gimme | 5K HD
music video | AT 2017 | 4 min | Seayou Records
directed, filmed and produced Serafin Spitzer
Wanda | 0043
music video | AT 2017 | 4 min | Universal Music
director Florian Pochlatko