
Portrait of Nowness
Innovative Cinema, AT 2025, DCP, 88 min, OmeUWhat unites us all, regardless of the circumstances or part of the world we live in? Is simply being human the lowest common denominator? In their experimental documentary, Juri Rechinsky and Mario Hainzl explore this question by equipping women and men of different ages with body cams—in Austria, Senegal, the U.S., Japan, and on the Ukrainian front. An intimate, point-of-view journey through many lives and realities, revealing how close we actually are.
Content Notes: the bodycam images rotate very frequently, which can cause dizziness. Portrait of Nowness also contains images of war and injury/death
Director: Juri Rechinsky, Mario Hainzl
Script: Juri Rechinsky, Barbara Caspar
Camera: Diverse Protagonist:innen mit Bodycam
Editor: Juri Rechinsky, Mario Hainzl
Location Sound: Manuel Meichsner, Anton Baibakov
Music: Anton Baibakov
Sounddesign: Manuel Meichsner
Additional Credits: Color Grading: Gerfried Guggi; Titel- und Posterdesign: Katya Slonova
Producers: Juri Rechinsky, Barbara Caspar, Martin Mayer
Production: Good News of Great Joy
Co-production: fragile features, Neuzeit Film
World Sales: Filmdelights
Distribution in Austria: Filmdelights
Funded by: BMWKMS — Kunst und Kultur
Stadt Wien MA 7
Stadt Graz
Land Kärnten Kultur
Film Commission Graz
Land Steiermark Kultur
World Premiere: Diagonale '26
Production format: digital
Script: Juri Rechinsky, Barbara Caspar
Camera: Diverse Protagonist:innen mit Bodycam
Editor: Juri Rechinsky, Mario Hainzl
Location Sound: Manuel Meichsner, Anton Baibakov
Music: Anton Baibakov
Sounddesign: Manuel Meichsner
Additional Credits: Color Grading: Gerfried Guggi; Titel- und Posterdesign: Katya Slonova
Producers: Juri Rechinsky, Barbara Caspar, Martin Mayer
Production: Good News of Great Joy
Co-production: fragile features, Neuzeit Film
World Sales: Filmdelights
Distribution in Austria: Filmdelights
Funded by: BMWKMS — Kunst und Kultur
Stadt Wien MA 7
Stadt Graz
Land Kärnten Kultur
Film Commission Graz
Land Steiermark Kultur
World Premiere: Diagonale '26
Production format: digital










