Georg Tiller
Managing Director
Biography
*1981 Vienna (Austria)
Georg Tiller is an Austrian director, screenwriter, and producer. After studying philosophy and theatre studies in Vienna, he trained with Harun Farocki at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and studied directing and cinematography with Michael Haneke and Christian Berger at the Vienna Film Academy. In parallel, he continued his directing studies at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb).
His work ranges from documentary and fiction to hybrid projects that expand the boundaries between classical cinema and experimental forms.
Key works include Zaho Zay, White Coal, DMD KIU LIDT, Overnight Flies, and Persona Beach. These films have screened internationally — among others at the Berlinale, IFFR, Hot Docs Toronto, and FIDMarseille — and have received multiple awards, including the Prix Renaud Victor (FIDMarseille) and the Erste Bank MehrWERT Film Prize (Viennale).
As producer and founder of Subobscura Films, based in Vienna and Paris, he oversees international co-productions that have been presented at festivals such as IDFA, CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel, and the Sarajevo Film Festival. Productions he has been involved in have won awards including the ARTE Film Prize at Duisburger Filmwoche and the Heart of Sarajevo for Best International Documentary.
Alongside his work as director and producer, Tiller also creates exhibition projects, shown at venues such as the Bienal de São Paulo, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Luleå Vinter Biennial.
Work as a director, writer and producer
2024 GODSTERMINAL — 90 min / Feature Film
2020 ZAHO ZAY — 79 min / Feature Film
2016 OVERNIGHT FLIES — 97 min / Feature Film
2015 WHITE COAL — 68 min / Documentary Film
2014 DMD KIU LIDT — 55 min / Middle Length Fiction
2011 PERSONA BEACH — 138 min / Feature Film
2010 VARGTIMMEN — NACH EINER SZENE VON INGMAR BERGMAN (Vargtimmen — after a scene by Ingmar Bergman) — 7 min / Experimental Short
2008 DER TURM DES ORNITHOLOGEN (The Tower of Birds) — 13 min / Short Documentary
2007 KM 43.3 DER TRANSSYLVANISCHE HOLZFALL (km 43.3 Transylvanian Timber) — 43 min / Middle Length Documentary
Work as a producer (selection)
2024 MÁRIO (director: Billy Woodberry) — 120 min / Feature Documentary
2021 PAST FUTURES (director: Johannes Gierlinger) — 98 min / Feature Documentary
2019 WHEN THE PERSIMMONS GREW (director: Hilal Baydarov) – 119 min / Feature Film
(Heart of Sarajevo for Best International Documentary, Special Jury Mention & Interreligious Award, Visions du réel, Nyon)
2013 SIENIAWKA (director: Marcin Malszczak) – 126 min / Feature Film
(World Première Berlinale Forum, Best First Feature Film – FID Marseille, ARTE Dokumentarfilmpreis – Duisburger Filmwoche, Special Jury Award, Doc Forum, Belo Horizonte)
Selected Exhibitions
2022 Luleåbiennalen
2013
T/Here, Le Quartier, Berlin
2012
A Sign on the Road said: Take us to madre!, helperprojects, Brooklyn, NY
Best of Best of Best of, Group Video Screening, Asociación Libre, Mexico City
Films from Vienna, plus screening, Tokyo
2011
Videonale: Dialogue in Contemporary Video Art, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
Les Rencontres Internationales, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2008
As Bring Collective, Künstlerhauspassage Wien
2005
Eine Einstellung zur Arbeit, Taxispalais Innsbruck and Foyer of the Austrian Filmmuseum with Harun Farocki
Thomas Ender Expedition Revisited, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2004
The Thomas Ender Expedition Revisited, Bieneal de Såo Paulo, with Mark Dion
Signal in the heavens, Berlin
Luleå Vinter Biennal, Luleå, Sweden
2003
Cinema of Pilots, Atelier Olaf Probst, Munich
We all want to become all, End of Year exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (Curator: Daniel Richter)
Zurich, Galerie Senn, Wien
2002
Actor / Performer in Claude Wampler’s “denislavant”, Menagerie de Verre, Paris
Actor / Performer in Claude Wampler’s “Infiltration”, Museumsquartier, Wien