60th Anniversary of the Austrian Film Museum

It can be assumed that film museums are the secret atlases of feelings from our immediate past and fleeting present. And it can also be assumed that their curators and archivists are working on the little appreciated (re-/de-)construction of a cartography of sensitivity of our increasingly fast-paced world of moving images. Motion pictures and film have existed since barely more than 120 years and their devotee, the Austrian Film Museum, is now turning 60, but it still houses – along with the many other museums in the Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF) – large and largely unknown countries full of time-based media.

Birthday Programs and Anniversary Activities

Congratulations from President Dr. Alexander van der Bellen

(In German)

60 Jahre Filmmuseum (Foto: ÖFM © Eszter Kondor)

March 14, 2024

BIRTHDAY PARTY

Films, lectures and improvisations over bread and wine

Guckkasten #5 (Foto: ÖFM © Eszter Kondor)

From March 2024

PEEP SHOW

Exhibition: Sixty years of Film Museum through the lens of our guests

From April 2024

GUESTS AND FRIENDS

Entries, sketches, and comments from the guest books

From April 2024

AT THE CORE OF THE CINEMA MACHINE

Brief visits to the projectionists. Upcoming dates will be announced.

Lesesaal Bibliothek (Foto: ÖFM © Christoph Fintl)

From May 2024

VISIT ME SOON

... in the reading room: Interviews, questions, and discussions on film, research, and investigation

Wienfilm 1896–1976, 1977, Ernst Schmidt jr.

July 2024

CLASSICS FROM SIX DECADES

Collection on Screen: From the founding of the Film Museum to the present day

From Autumn 2024

CINEMA IS

... not just a dark space but: photos, selfies, and quotes from friends of the Film Museum

Vynález zkázy (Die Erfindung des Verderbens), 1958, Karel Zeman (Foto: Národní filmový archive)

December 13 to 15, 2024

SEA MONSTERS

Sea monsters and other creatures on the screen of the Film Museum

Activities by Friends of the Film Museum

April 21, 2024, 7.30 p.m.

MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA

Konzerthaus, Great Hall
Čelovek s kinoapparatom (Man with a Movie Camera, 1929, Dziga Vertov): World premiere of the new soundtrack by Martin Eberle and Martin Ptak as part of "Film + Music live" in cooperation with the Austrian Film Museum

June 12 to 15, 2024

DOMITOR CONFERENCE

The 18th International DOMITOR Conference at the Austrian Film Museum on the topic "A Long Early Cinema?"