Viola Zichy is a Vienna and London based filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores the boundaries between fiction and documentary, with a strong focus on media archaeology, collective memory, and narrative construction. She holds a BA in Fine Art and Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she specialised in media and video art.
Her graduation film The Maps of a Memoir (2018) is a docu-fiction short that reconstructs her family's flight through Austria at the end of World War II. It examines the notion of originality in storytelling, combining archival material, cinematic references, and a computer-generated voiceover to challenge traditional narrative authority.
Following her degree, Zichy worked as Technical Coordinator at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London, while continuing her practice as a filmmaker. In 2020, she entered the professional film industry as a camera assistant, gaining technical expertise and deepening her engagement with filmmaking as both a craft and a conceptual tool.
Her current projects continue to explore the themes of historical reconstruction, authorship, and cultural critique.