A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Wien, Austria
Born:
August 28, 1951
Georg Riha ranks amongst Austria’s leading DOPs, directors and producers who successfully combines state-of-the-art technology and creative image design. The creation of large, powerful and emotional images, the search for new perspectives as well as the guiding principle of producing high quality work are the driving forces behind his extraordinary projects. A graduate of the Vienna Film Academy, he started off his career as photographer, focusing on industrial, architectural and aerial photography. When moving from still images to film and video, Georg Riha set out to design his own innovative camera equipment, such as the CAMCAT© wire system, the CAMBLIMP© balloon system and the CAM35TL© timelapse system, in order to realise his visionary ideas of discovering new perspectives and exploring unseen horizons. Milestones in his work are the award-winning UNIVERSUM documentaries “St. Stephen’s – The Living Cathedral”, “Glockner – The Black Mountain”, “Schoenbrunn – Well of Beauty”, “Wachau – Valley of Golden Magic” and “Salzburg – In the Shadow of the Crags”, all of which are unique portaits of Austrian monuments. Additional productions include “Visions of Austria” for the EXPO 2000 in Hannover, “Tyrol – Land in the Mountains” commissioned by Cine Tirol, the interval films for the Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concerts 2000, 2006 and 2008, as well as various corporate videos and image films, many of them having been awarded international prizes.
Additional Photography:
2005 Vienna's Forests - Jewels of Green
2008 Music at the Sea
2010 Buildings for the Arts
2010 Vienna's Water
2013 The Magic of Laxenburg
Animation Director:
1994 Waterways
2005 Vienna's Forests - Jewels of Green
2008 Music at the Sea
2010 Buildings for the Arts
2010 Vienna's Water
2013 The Magic of Laxenburg
Director:
1994 Waterways
1997 St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
1999 Lech - the last Wild River
2000 Glockner - The black Mountain
2002 Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
2005 Vienna's Forests - Jewels of Green
2005 Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic
2006 Salzburg - In the Shadow of the Crags
2008 Music at the Sea
2010 Buildings for the Arts
2010 Vienna's Water
2013 The Magic of Laxenburg
2014 The Cellar Lanes of Lower Austria - Wine Culture and the Pleasures of Life
2017 Maria Theresia - Vermächtnis einer Herrscherin
Director of Photography:
1994 Waterways
1997 St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
1999 Lech - the last Wild River
2000 Glockner - The black Mountain
2002 Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
2005 Vienna's Forests - Jewels of Green
2005 Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic
2006 Salzburg - In the Shadow of the Crags
2008 Music at the Sea
2010 Buildings for the Arts
2010 Vienna's Water
2013 The Magic of Laxenburg
2014 The Cellar Lanes of Lower Austria - Wine Culture and the Pleasures of Life
2017 Maria Theresia - Vermächtnis einer Herrscherin
Editor:
1994 Waterways
1997 St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
1999 Lech - the last Wild River
2000 Glockner - The black Mountain
2002 Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
2005 Vienna's Forests - Jewels of Green
2005 Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic
2006 Salzburg - In the Shadow of the Crags
2008 Music at the Sea
2010 Buildings for the Arts
2010 Vienna's Water
2013 The Magic of Laxenburg
2014 The Cellar Lanes of Lower Austria - Wine Culture and the Pleasures of Life
2017 Maria Theresia - Vermächtnis einer Herrscherin
Helicopter Camera:
1994 Waterways
1997 St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
1999 Lech - the last Wild River
2000 Glockner - The black Mountain
2002 Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
2005 Vienna's Forests - Jewels of Green
2005 Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic
2006 Salzburg - In the Shadow of the Crags
2008 Music at the Sea
2010 Buildings for the Arts
2010 Vienna's Water
2013 The Magic of Laxenburg
2014 The Cellar Lanes of Lower Austria - Wine Culture and the Pleasures of Life
2017 Maria Theresia - Vermächtnis einer Herrscherin
Idea:
1994 Waterways
1997 St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
1999 Lech - the last Wild River
2000 Glockner - The black Mountain
2002 Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
2005 Vienna's Forests - Jewels of Green
2005 Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic
2006 Salzburg - In the Shadow of the Crags
2008 Music at the Sea
2010 Buildings for the Arts
2010 Vienna's Water
2013 The Magic of Laxenburg
2014 The Cellar Lanes of Lower Austria - Wine Culture and the Pleasures of Life
2017 Maria Theresia - Vermächtnis einer Herrscherin
Producer:
1994 Waterways
1997 St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
1999 Lech - the last Wild River
2000 Glockner - The black Mountain
2002 Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
2005 Vienna's Forests - Jewels of Green
2005 Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic
2006 Salzburg - In the Shadow of the Crags
2008 Music at the Sea
2010 Buildings for the Arts
2010 Vienna's Water
2013 The Magic of Laxenburg
2014 The Cellar Lanes of Lower Austria - Wine Culture and the Pleasures of Life
2017 Maria Theresia - Vermächtnis einer Herrscherin
Script:
1994 Waterways
1997 St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
1999 Lech - the last Wild River
2000 Glockner - The black Mountain
2002 Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
2005 Vienna's Forests - Jewels of Green
2005 Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic
2006 Salzburg - In the Shadow of the Crags
2008 Music at the Sea
2010 Buildings for the Arts
2010 Vienna's Water
2013 The Magic of Laxenburg
2014 The Cellar Lanes of Lower Austria - Wine Culture and the Pleasures of Life
2017 Maria Theresia - Vermächtnis einer Herrscherin
Writer:
1994 Waterways
1997 St. Stephen's: The Living Cathedral
1999 Lech - the last Wild River
2000 Glockner - The black Mountain
2002 Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
2005 Vienna's Forests - Jewels of Green
2005 Wachau - Valley of Golden Magic
2006 Salzburg - In the Shadow of the Crags
2008 Music at the Sea
2010 Buildings for the Arts
2010 Vienna's Water
2013 The Magic of Laxenburg
2014 The Cellar Lanes of Lower Austria - Wine Culture and the Pleasures of Life
2017 Maria Theresia - Vermächtnis einer Herrscherin
Director:
2016 Austria from Above: Jewels of the Country
Director of Photography:
2016 Austria from Above: Jewels of the Country
Producer:
2016 Austria from Above: Jewels of the Country
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