Here you can find a first glimpse of our upcoming events in May and June 2026. The full program with all details and dates will be published on April 22, 2026.
Program Preview May / June 2026
(May 6 to July 4, 2026)
Stanley Kubrick, Shirley Clarke, Michael Roemer
Love at First Sight: Directorial Debuts from the Collection (Part 2)
In Person: Paul D. Miller – DJ Spooky
A Visit from Crossing Europe
It's All Work
In Memoriam Emily Artmann
Viktoria Schmid: In Person and Carte Blanche
In Person: Onyeka Igwe
In Person: Bruce & Norman Yonemoto
A Visit from the Duisburg Film Week: 50 Years of the Present
Conversations with Women Film Pioneers: VALIE EXPORT
Film Museum Makes Film
Artistic Research as Program: How Does Film Sound?
What Is Film: Program 63-64
May 7 to June 27, 2026
Shirley Clarke, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Roemer
The filmmakers Shirley Clarke, Stanley Kubrick, and Michael Roemer share a great deal in common: They were of roughly the same generation, were all of Jewish heritage, spent formative and/or crucial phases of their lives and careers in New York City, and were important contributors to the explosion of politically, socially, formally, and financially independent filmmaking that emerged and flourished within American cinema in the 1950s and 60s. Within the parameters of this burgeoning American independent cinema movement, however, their careers took radically different paths. [...]May 6, 2026
Paul D. Miller – DJ Spooky
In Person
Paul D. Miller, widely known as DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, presents Christine Turner's new film Sun Ra: Do the Impossible, as the exclusive Austrian premiere at the Film Museum. [...]May 11, 2026
A Visit from Crossing Europe
We are pleased to welcome back the directors of Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz, Sabine Gebetsroither and Katharina Riedler, who have again selected two works from the festival to present at the Film Museum. [...]May 12, 2026
What Is Film:
Program 63–64
Peter Kubelka's cycle What Is Film was created in 1996 on the occasion of the centenary of cinema. Program 63 features films by Guy Fihman and Albert Sackl, and program 64 films by Peter Kubelka. [...]May 20 to June 5, 2026
It's All Work
To accompany the Haus der Geschichte Österreich's exhibition It's All Work: Women's Paid and Unpaid Labor (on view until January 10, 2027), we are screening two films from the 1970s by Chantal Akerman and Marva Nabili. [...]May 27, 2026
Emily Artman
In Memoriam
On this evening, the Film Museum in collaboration with the Diagonale remembers filmmaker and poet Emily Artmann. [...]May 28, 2026
Viktoria Schmid
In Person and Carte Blanche: Reflected Lights
Viktoria Schmid has established herself as a sought-after film artist since her first releases in the 2010s. Her works are shown in renowned festivals and have been the subject of survey programs, and her 16mm installations can be seen alongside her cyanotypes in exhibition halls around the world. [...]May 29, 2026
Onyeka Igwe
In Person
Onyeka Igwe is a London born and based, moving image artist and researcher. Her work is aimed at the question: How do we live together? [...]May 30 to June 29, 2026
Love at First Sight
Directorial Debuts from the Collection (Part 2)
Following the first part of this Collection on Screen in March and April, we will now show more debuts on film prints. This time the selection spans from the 1950s to the early 2000s. In between lie decades of upheaval and counter-culture, the discovery of new filmic continents, and the cinematic spectrum of the 1990s on both sides of the Atlantic. [...]June 3 and 4, 2026
Bruce & Norman Yonemoto – Made in Hollywood
In Person
Bruce (b. 1949) and Norman Yonemoto (1946–2014) were frequent collaborators from 1976 until Norman's death, working at the intersection of experimental cinema, media, and fine arts. This first survey of their work in Austria presents a selection of intersectionality-informed work that oscillates between these spaces and disciplines. [...]June 11 and 13, 2026
A Visit from the Duisburg Film Week
50 Years of the Present: Material and History
For the third time in a row, the Duisburg Film Week brings a program to the Austrian Film Museum, and this time marks the festival's 50th anniversary. Six programs will present works from throughout the history of the festival. [...]June 24, 2026
VALIE EXPORT
Conversations with Women Film Pioneers
Following the screening of the film Die Praxis der Liebe (1985), Julia Pühringer and Katharina Müller (co-editor of the book How to Do Things with VALIE EXPORT) will talk with VALIE EXPORT. [...]June 30 to July 3, 2026
Film Museum Makes Film
A closer look at our staff reveals that almost half of us not only handle, inspect, preserve, restore, catalogue, research, program, promote, dream, think, and write about images, but also manufacture them! Join us as we celebrate the end of the 2025/26 program season with a small, joyfully and carelessly composed selection! [...]July 4, 2026