Program October 2023 to January 2024
(October 20, 2023 to January 10, 2024)
Raúl Ruiz
Viennale im Filmmuseum
Constanze Ruhm. Werkschau und Carte blanche
Cinema for Little Ones: Expedition in the Realm of Movie Animals
Laura Mulvey. Retrospective and Carte Blanche
Flotsam: Evgeny Yufit
Collection on Screen: Lav Diaz – Part 5
Annette Michelson. Euphorie des Erkennens. Denken in Filmen und anderes
In Person: Hito Steyerl
Collection on Screen: Michael Pilz – Part 2
Talks with Women Film Pioneers: Lisl Ponger
The Amos Vogel Atlas Chapter 15: The Poetry of Tableaux Vivants
Christmas at the Film Museum: The Wizard of Oz
What Is Film: Program 13-28
October 20, 2023 to January 10, 2024
Raúl Ruiz
The Austrian Film Museum honors director, artist and writer Raúl Ruiz with a comprehensive retrospective in collaboration with the Viennale. Raúl Ruiz – born in Chile in 1941; shortly after the coup d'etat of 1973, exiled in France, where he died in 2011 – is primarily known for his film work. But he was also an extremely productive, well-read, and innovative artist in whose work a wide variety of places, styles and aesthetic traditions come together. [...]November 2, 2023 to January 4, 2024
Constanze Ruhm
Retrospective and Carte Blanche
Constanze Ruhm's extensive film and video work is one of the most innovative examinations of feminist subjectivity, sociality, and the essence of (film) history. [...]November 16, 2023 to January 8, 2024
Laura Mulvey
Retrospective and Carte Blanche
In a comprehensive retrospective, we honor a feminist whose importance as a filmmaker has always stood in the shadow of her prominence as a theorist: Laura Mulvey. [...]December 10, 2023
Collection on Screen
Michael Pilz – Part 2
This spring, we presented a selection of works by Austrian gem Michal Pilz whose films are preserved at the Austrian Film Museum. In small steps and as part of our monthly series Collection of Screen, we will extend this retrospective, this time with Siberian Diary – Days At Apanas (2003). [...]December 13, 2023
Lisl Ponger
Talks with Women Film Pioneers
With her Super 8 films from the 1970s, Lisl Ponger is one of the pioneers of avant-garde film in Austria. After the film program, Sara Piñeros Cortes and Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg will moderate the talk with the artist. [...]December 14, 2023 & January 6 and 10, 2024
The Amos Vogel Atlas – Chapter 15
The Poetry of Tableaux Vivants
In cinema's early years, still tableaus were the norm. This chapter of the Vogel Atlas combines these gems with an amazing re-discovery from ex-Yugoslavia (and its short film precursor), in whose restoration the Film Museum was involved. [...]December 24, 2023
Christmas at the Film Museum
The Wizard of Oz
At Christmas – with a screening on the early afternoon of December 24 – we will be showing the MGM classic The Wizard of Oz (1939). [...]Each Tuesday
What Is Film
Program 13–28
Works by Kenneth Anger, Martin Arnold, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Luis Buñuel, Cinématographe Lumière, René Clair & Francis Picabia, Aleksandr Dovženko, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Georges Franju, Peter Hutton, George Kuchar, Ken Jacobs, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Pat O'Neill, Man Ray, Ron Rice, Walter Ruttmann, Paul Sharits, Robert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer, Michael Snow, Dziga Vertov, Jean Vigo, and Andy Warhol [...]Past Events
October 20 to 31, 2023
Viennale at the Film Museum
The Austrian Film Museum is not only the venue for our joint retrospective with the Viennale, Raúl Ruiz, but also a festival cinema showing special programs and contemporary works from numerous filmmakers. For more information visit www.viennale.at. [...]November 5, 2023
Flotsam
Evgeny Yufit: Exploring a Necrorealist Archive
Necrorealism was a radical art movement that sprung up in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s. The two programs present unique archival materials from Yufit's personal archive alongside a selection of his early short films and his second feature, The Wooden Room (1995). [...]November 19, 2023
Collection on Screen
Lav Diaz – Part 5
Death in the Land of Encantos (2007) is the third digital epic by Lav Diaz, a taking stock of the shaken landscape of the Filipino soul, this time focusing on the story of the poet Benjamin Agusan. [...]November 29, 2023
Annette Michelson. Euphorie des Erkennens. Denken in Filmen und anderes
Book Presentation and Film
Annette Michelson (1922–2018) is one of the most important contemporary film scholars. Euphorie des Erkennens. Denken in Filmen und anderes appears on Michelson's 101st birthday and collects several of her central works as well as an unpublished conversation with Alexander Kluge. [...]November 5 and December 8, 2023
Cinema for Little Ones
Expedition in the Realm of Movie Animals
Cinema for Little Ones brings film programs, moderated by a film educator, to children ages 3 and up and their families. This time, we are on an expedition in the realm of movie animals. [...]December 6 to 8, 2023
In Person
Hito Steyerl
Munich-born artist, filmmaker, theorist, and professor Hito Steyerl and her work have in the past few years been present at nearly every major event in the art world and she is one of the most influential contemporary artists. [...]
