Film Museum on Location

2024

December 5 | Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, University of Vienna
Elisabeth Streit: Presentation of the Film Museum and the research possibilities in the library as part of the course "Literary Research I"

December 2 | filmkoop wien, Komödiengasse
Lecture by Lena Stötzel and Johannes Minas on decisions, questions and problems around the topic of film digitization at filmkoop wien.
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November 15 | Friedensbüro Salzburg
Keynote speech by Stefan Huber on the topic of "Moving images and peace work" as part of the "Peace Media Day 2024." Followed by discussion in small groups.
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November 11 | Institut für Bildungswissenschaft, University of Vienna
Anna Högner and Stefanie Zingl take part in the round table discussion on biographical sources in collections. The event is part of the 25th workshop of the Biographical Research Network on the politics of collecting.
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November 19 to 21 | Youki Wels
Film analysis workshop for school classes with Anna Dohnalek as part of the YOUKI International Youth Media Festival in Wels.

October 24 | St. Veit, Fuchspalast
Workshop by Anna Dohnalek on "AI & Film: Between Controversy and Creativity" as part of the St. Veit Symposium on Artificial Intelligence.
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October 16 | Slovenska kinoteka, Ljubljana
Lecture, film program, and discussion by Stefanie Zingl and Hanna Schimek with the title "'Whenever I Look at the Sky.' Films by Lizzy Kessler, Poldi Kuplent, Renate Schweiger and Hanna Schimek” as part of the Autumn Film School on "Women Make Film."

October 6 | Belvedere 21, Blickle Kino, Vienna
After a screening of Dziga Vertov's The Man with the Camera (1929)– accompanied by Elaine Loebenstein on the piano – Michael Loebenstein and curator Ana Petrovic will talk about the relationship between film and photomontage.
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September 13 | Moviemento Linz
Introduction by Christoph Huber to Ostatni etap (1948, Wanda Jakubowska) as part of this year's Dialogue Forum of the Mauthausen Memorial on the topic "Women in the Holocaust." 
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September 10 and 11 | Dürnstein
Presentation by Anna Högner and Michael Loebenstein: "Österreichisches Filmmuseum: domain-specific research questions & challenges" at the dissertation colloquium "Visual Heritage" organized by the TU Vienna and the FH St. Pölten
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August 21 to 24 | KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen / Mauthausen Memorial Die Filmretrospektive der KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen 2024 mit dem Titel "Flucht ins Ungewisse: Rette sich wer kann" wird kuratiert und moderiert von Elisabeth Streit und Tom Waibel (ÖFM) in Zusammenarbeit mit Stephan Matyus (KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen). 
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May 31 and June 1 | Altes Rathaus, Wiener Neudorf As part of the Viertelfestival and the Nautica project, organized by the eumig Museum, Janneke van Dalen and Lena Stötzel will talk about the restoration project Wonders of the Sea, Stefanie Zingl will present a film program with underwater footage from the amateur film collection. 
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May 24 | National University of Theatre and Film I. L. Caragiale, Bucharest, Romania (online)
Stefanie Zingl speaks in the seminar "Introduction to Amateur Cinema" by Liri Chapelan about the amateur film collection at the Austrian Film Museum.

May 24 | Eumig Museum, Wiener Neudorf The "Museumspraxis Spezial" seminar series is dedicated to a wide variety of materials in eight-hour practical seminars. Practical course by Kevin Lutz: "Medienbestände: Sichern von alten Film- und Tonträgern". 

May 20 to June 8 | Zagreb
The 17th Subversive Festival in Zagreb was held under the motto "Living Beyond Capitalism" and Tom Waibel was on the jury for the "Wild Dreamer Awards" for the most subversive feature and documentary film.
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May 15 to 17 | Universität für Weiterbildung Krems
To mark the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka's death, the Archiv der Zeitgenossen and the Universität für Weiterbildung Krems dedicated an academic conference ("The Kafkaesque in the arts") with an extensive supporting program to the writer. As part of the conference, Elisabeth Streit and Tom Waibel presented their reflections on Kafka and early cinema as a performative lecture and presented the film adaptation of The Trial by Orson Welles (1962) in the accompanying program.
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April 20 | Bolzano, Capitol 2 Introduction by Alessandra Thiele at the screening of Maria Lassnig's canonical films at the Bolzano Film Festival Bolzano

April 20 | Bolzano, Bar Luna (Parkhotel Mondschein) Panel participation of Alessandra Thiele (together with Eva Sangiorgi and Viola Shafik) on the topic Women - Films - Festivals? at the Bolzano Film Festival Bolzano. Further information

April 19 | Lichter Filmfestival, Frankfurt/Main Stefan Huber is part of the panel at the book launch of Encounter RWF. Fassbinder Archiv Vermitteln in the framework of the Lichter Filmfestival, Frankfurt/Main.
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April 17 | Ernst Barlach Schools of the Pfennigparade Foundation, Munich "Pfennigflimmern": Public film screening in the foyer of the Ernst Barlach Schools, Munich. Stefan Huber curates the program, conducts Q&As with the students whose films are shown and leads an analysis discussion with the audience after the feature film (The Apartment).

April 14 | Stadtkino Wien
Film screening Sleeping with a Tiger (2024, Anja Salomonowitz) followed by a discussion with Michael Loebenstein, Hans Werner Poschauko & Rhea Tebbich and Anja Salomonowitz as part of the exhibition "Maria Lassnig. Self as camera!" at the Künstlerhaus
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April 6 | Schubertkino 1, Graz
"Nachspann EXTRA: The Lost Soap of Michael G.": A special screening of Michael Glawogger's "lost" pilot episode of the TV series LKH. A festive evening of remembrance to mark the 10th anniversary of the director's death, followed by a discussion with former companions (Michael Ostrowski, Pia Hierzegger and director Helmut Köpping). Moderation: Christoph Huber (AFM)
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April 5 to 7 | Schubertkino + Rechbauer Kino, Graz
Elisabeth Streit moderates the talks with Lisl Ponger at the Diagonale (retrospective and carte blanche)

March 30 | Center for Contemporary Art Beijing (UCCA) in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum Beijing and the Beijing Film Academy
Film screening with Maria Lassnig's short films and subsequent discussion; online greeting from Michael Loebenstein at the opening

January 25 | Galerie Hinterland, Wien
As part of the event series "Vogelgespräche", Stefanie Zingl and Sigi Fruhauf talk about the flight of birds in amateur film.
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January 25 | Museum für Fotografie, Berlin
Expert discussion with Anna Högner (AFM) and Fabian Schmidt (Film University Potsdam): "CLOSE UP! Images of atrocities - ethical considerations on working with photos and film in the context of the Holocaust" as part of the exhibition "Flashes of Memory. Photography in the Holocaust"
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2023

December 12 | Metro Kinokulturhaus, Wien
Presentation by Lena Stötzel and Janneke van Dalen: "Plotting and Puzzling: the Restoration of Wonders of the Sea" at the conference "Color in Film"
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December 11 | DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum e.V., Frankfurt
Under the headline "Vernetzte Bilder. Digitale Zugänge zum audiovisuellen Erbe des Holocaust," projects from academic research and technical innovations from the field of Holocaust education will be presented.
Presentation by Anna Högner: "VHH-MMSI: Relaunch of the CdH on the Visual History of the Holocaust platform" and together with Fabian Schmidt: "Images of atrocities: Ethical considerations for working with images of the Holocaust"
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December 11 | Metro Kinokulturhaus, Wien
Presentation by Stefanie Zingl and Martin Reinhart: "Polavision - an experiment in instant color film" at the conference "Colour in Film"
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November 22 | FIAF (online)
On November 22, at 4 p.m. (CET) the book Share That Knowledge! A Road Map for Sharing Knowledge across Generations of Audiovisual Archivists will be released and presented online.
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November 21 | Admiralkino, Vienna
After the screening of Brainwashed – Sex Camera Power by Nina Menkes, Michael Loebenstein will discuss the question of what Brainwashed does to the film canon and how film curators and archivists today deal with the "male gaze" and its contextualization in film history.
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October 10 and 12 | YOUKI International Youth Media Festival, Wels
Film analysis workshop for school classes with Anna Dohnalek as part of the YOUKI International Youth Media Festival in Wels.
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September 28 | AK Vienna
In the context of the 14th conference of the IGPB - Interessensgemeinschaft Politische Bildung Stefan Huber will give the keynote speech "Talking about war through film. The (questionable) reality of images" and will be available for discussion afterwards.
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September 26 | Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Lecture by Michael Loebenstein: "Filmdokumente der alliierten Streitkräfte aus den befreiten Konzentrationslagern und von anderen Verbrechensorten" in the context of the exhibition "What do photographs tell? Albert Dieckmann's Pictures from Occupied Eastern Europe 1941/42."
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September 16 | Budapest Classics Film Marathon
Stefan Huber presents the Cinemini project in a workshop for interested parents.
Cinemini | Further information

August 16 to 19 | Mauthausen Memorial
The open-air film retrospective of the Mauthausen Memorial, "Schatten der Vergangenheit – Kein Platz für dunkle Geheimnisse," was curated and moderated by Elisabeth Streit and Tom Waibel.
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June 28 | Programmkino, Wels
Stefan Huber was invited to program a film (he chose Aftersun, 2022, Charlotte Wells) and was present for an extended film-analytic talk after the screening.
 
June 23 | Wiener Hofburg (Schreyvogelsaal)
Anna Dohnalek, Edith Huemer: Workshop "Didaktische
Überlegungen zu 'Losing My Religion': zwei Karaokeszenen als Angel- und Wendepunkte in Sonne und Aftersun" in the context of the symposium of the Kieler Gesellschaft für Filmmusikforschung "Filmmusik und Filmsound im Kontext ihrer Vermittlung".
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June 16 | ifk, Vienna
"Before the party: LGBTIQ* home movies": Contribution by Katharina Müller in the context of "Where are we now? Working in Cultural Studies 1993-2043", conference on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the ifk International Research Centre for Cultural Studies.
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June 11 | Kino Arsenal, Berlin
Round table discussion "International Film Heritage Practices" with Jurij Meden at the Archival Assembly #2.
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June 7 | silent green Kulturquartier, Berlin
The Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art turns 60. On the occasion of the anniversary celebration there will be a series of programs, including panel discussions with many guests (including Jurij Meden).
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June 4 | Eye Filmmuseum, University of Amsterdam
"Why easy when you can make it hard? Of difficult histories, digital (in)humanities, and the potential for change": Lecture by Michael Loebenstein und Anna Högner at the Eye International Conference 2023.
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June 2 | Goethe University Frankfurt
"Film Fermentation - A Film as an Object in Spacetime": Jurij Meden is keynote speaker at the conference "Sticky Films. Conceptual and Material Explorations", organized by the DFG-Research Training Program "Configurations of Film."
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June 2| IFK Wien and online
"Haptic Images - Bodies as Multitudes": Katharina Müller in conversation with Karin Harrasser on cinematic notions of space and body at the symposium "Gender Topologies. Aesthetics and Politics of Non-Orientation".
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May 12 | Quartier für digital Kultur (QDK), Quartier 21/Museumsquartier
Lecture by Paolo Caneppele: "Krieg, Reich der Finsternis. Die Figur der Blinden im Filmfragment Konrad Hartls Lebensschicksal" (1918) at the "4th Meeting: Media and the Senses".
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May 9 | House of Film / Palazzo del Cinema, Gorizia
Lecture by Paolo Caneppele: "Film History and Film Archives" at the symposium "East/West. Border through film and history".
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May 5 | Suburbinale, Groß-Enzersdorf
Stefan Huber presented and moderated an educational event for elementary school classes from Groß-Enzersdorf, showing amateur films from the area.
Suburbinale

May 3 | House of Austrian History, Vienna
Visual History of the Holocaust project presentation with Michael Loebenstein and Ingo Zechner as part of the event "Film als Zeuge? Holocaust Education mit digitalen Mitteln", organized by hdgö. The exhibition End of Testimony? is on view until September 3, 2023.
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April 22 | Schaubühne Lindenfels, Leipzig
Katharina Müller: Book presentation of Picturing Austrian Cinema at the Leipzig Book Fair (Guest Country Austria)
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April 21 | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Alessandra Thiele on the panel "The audience strategy of small and medium film festivals" in the framework of Bolzano Film Festival Bozen.
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April 16 to 21 | Casa del Lago, Mexico City
Michael Loebenstein, Secretary General of FIAF from 2013 to 2023, presented at this year's Congress of the Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film, organized by Filmoteca UNAM in Mexico, the "Second Century Forum", which deals with future issues of the profession and this year was dedicated to the topics "ethics" and "ecological sustainability."
FIAF Congress

March 31 | Centre Pompidou, Paris
Talk with Lena Stötzel and Gérald Duchaussoy about the restoration of Wienfilm 1896-1976 (1976/77, Ernst Schmidt jr.) at the "European classic documentary film rendez-vous" (Cinéma du réel) and screening of an excerpt of the restoration.
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March 28 | Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Lecture Katharina Müller: "Vienna Queerstories x Filmmuseum: Narrating & tracing queer visual histories

March 22 to 24 | Diagonale, Graz
Moderation Stefan Huber at "kino:class" and "kino:class:day", the film education for young people at the Diagonale.
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February 24 | Hauptbücherei am Gürtel (Vienna)
Training by Stefan Huber for employees of the libraries in Vienna on the topic "We mediate films."

February 23 | Prague Zoo
Stefanie Zingl: Press event presenting films and film stills of the unknown film amateurs who filmed the Prague Zoo in the 1930s.
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February 17 | Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Lecture by Anna Högner: "Rethinking Film Curation - Digital Access to Europe's Dark Heritage" at the conference "Digitalk is Better? Collection Research in the Digital Age".
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February 11 | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Lecture by and talk with Katharina Müller: "Kuratorischer Aktivismus in und mit dem Österreichischen Filmmuseum"
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January 27 | TUtheSky, Vienna
On Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023, the EU Horizon 2020 project "Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age (VHH)" presented a preview of the results of its four-year work. Among others, Michael Loebenstein and Anna Högner from the Film Museum were among the speakers.
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January 25 | Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) (online)
Lecture by Tom Waibel: "Vermischung/ Mestizisierung. Zur biopolitischen Konstruktion (post)kolonialer Identitäten" at the online event "Szenen der Kritik – zwischen postkolonialer, medienästhetischer und politischer Philosophie"
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January 18 to 20 | Schaubühne Lindenfels, Leipzig
Introductions by Paolo Caneppele and talks with Michael Loebenstein at the conference "Lifting Stones. On the cinematic work of Maria Lassnig" in the context of "meaoiswiamia – Guest Country Austria Leipzig Book Fair".
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2022

December 3 | PAF Olomouc
Jurij Meden at the round table "Professionals #6: Cinema Excursion. A Roundtable With a Few Observations on Preserving and Exhibiting Cinema in the Third Millenium" beim 21st Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art
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November 24 to 27 | CERCEC, Auditorium Coubertin, Paris
Michael Loebenstein and Anna Högner at the VHH conference "Documenting Nazi Crimes through Film: Soviet Union, 1942–1945", organized by the Centre for Russian, Caucasian Studies and Central European Studies (CERCEC/CNRS) in cooperation with the Mémorial de la Shoah.
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November 19 | University of Lausanne and University of Zurich
Stefanie Zingl is guest at the workshop of the inter-university PhD program "Visual Disposives: Film, Photography, and Other Media". Based on her work on Josef Mroz, the workshop will focus on the history of technology of amateur film, the interactions between film technology and film practice, and the relationship between film technology and politics.
 
November 17 and 18| Lichtspiel Kinemathek, Bern
Lecture by Stefanie Zingl at the conference "9.5mm: And Cinema Is Everywhere" and participation in the panel discussion "Pathé Baby Everywhere".
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November 15 | Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna
Book presentation Gewohnte Gewalt. Häusliche Brutalität und heimliche Bedrohung im Spannungskino (ed. Drehli Robnik/Joachim Schätz, 2022) with a contribution by Elisabeth Streit.

October 19 | LWL Museum for Art and Culture, Münster
Introduction by Andrea Pollach at the opening of the series "Made in Austria. New Austrian Film," which will be shown in Münster on five evenings between October 19 and November 23.
 
October 4 | Teatro Verdi, Pordenone
Paolo Caneppele: Book presentation Sguardi privati. Teorie e prassi del cinema amatoriale at the filmfair of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto / Pordenone Silent Film Festival

September 15 and 16 | Toldi Cinema, Budapest
Introductions by Elisabeth Streit at the Peter Lorre Special of the Budapest Classic Film Marathon.
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September 12 | Jerusalem Cinematheque
Michael Loebenstein and Anna Högner at the VHH-conference "Migrating Images and Image Migration: How Popular Culture Shapes the Visual History of the Holocaust", organized by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Further information | Program (PDF)

August 17 to 20 | Mauthausen Memorial
The films of the Open Air Film Retrospective on "Jewish Resistance" will be introduced by Elisabeth Streit and Tom Waibel.
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June 28 | Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna + online
Presentation by Janneke van Dalen and Nadja Šičarov: "Share that Knowledge! - Project Update" at the ACE Workshop "The Preservation of Knowledge".
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June 16 to 18 | University of Southampton (online).
Stefanie Zingl: Lecture "A World in Red and Green. The Early Color Process of Mroz Color Film" at the University of Southampton conference "The 'Little Apparatus': 100 Years of 9.5 mm Film".

June 8 | Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen
Katharina Müller: Guest lecture "Geheime Öffentlichkeiten und Medienräume - Zum Kuratieren audiovisueller Spuren" in the framework of the symposium "Kategorisierungen von Geschlecht und kulturelles Gedächtnis von LSBTIQ in Theorie, musealer Praxis und Kunst"

May 26 | METRO Kinokulturhaus
Jurij Meden at the panel discussion "Festivals, Archives and the End of Analog Film" at Vienna Shorts.
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May 24 | Museu de Serralves, Porto
Stefan Huber at the panel discussion "Film education in pre-schools, schools and museums" at an international "Cinemini Hands-On" workshop.
 
May 12 | Quartier for Digital Culture (QDK), Quartier 21 / Museumsquartier
Paolo Caneppele: Opening lecture "Krieg, Reich der Finsternis. Die Figur der Blinden im Filmfragment Konrad Hartls Lebensschicksal (1918)" at the 4th Meeting: Media and the Senses.
 
May 10 | MDW, Arthouse Cinema
Talk with Elisabeth Streit after screening of Karin Brandauer's film Sidonie (1990).
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May 8 to 10 | DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
Michael Loebenstein at the conference "Moving Images from the Archives. Historical Footage of Nazi Crimes in Documentaries," jointly organized by DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum and Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen in the course of the "Visual History of the Holocaust" project.
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May 8 | Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Kevin Lutz at the panel discussion "Expanding the Collection" on access to analog film for organizers.
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May 3 | Technisches Museum Wien
Michael Loebenstein: Panel Discussion on "Collecting" at the "Mediathek 60+1" Conference

April 26 | Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
Introduction by Günter Krenn before the screening of the television play Die Bekehrung des Ferdyš Pištora (ORF, 1964).
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April 26 | Uránia National Film Theatre, Budapest
Michael Loebenstein and Anna Högner at the symposium "The Visible Archive" in the framework of FIAF Congress 2022 / Presentation Anna Högner: "Combining Sources on Nazi Atrocities: A Metadata schema to describe, relate and annotate film and non-film material"
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April 2 | Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Filmakademie Wien, Institut für Film und Fernsehen
Katharina Müller: Guest lecture "(Die) Visuelle Geschichte von LGBTIQ* in und mit Verbindungslinien nach Österreich" at the 35th "FFK - Film- und Fernsehwissenschaftiche Kolloquium"

March 24 | Musikverein, Vienna
Michael Loebenstein in conversation with Michael Haneke and Dr. Stephan Pauly (Intendant of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna). The "Musikverein Perspektiven" will highlight the musicality of Haneke's films and his passion for music.
Musikverein | Michael Haneke Retrospective

March 15 | Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Institut für Angewandte Fotografie und zeitbasierte Medien
Katharina Müller & Anna Högner: Guest lecture "Vienna Queerstories: Narrating and Tracing Queer Visual Histories"

March 4 | Programmkino Wels
Elfriede Irrall's Super 8 film ums freiwerden hätte es ja gehen sollen (1977–1984) will be shown in the program series Female Tracks. Afterwards, Stefanie Zingl will provide insight into the research activities surrounding the film.
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February 25 | University of Udine (online)
Paolo Caneppele: "Drei Vorschläge für eine Theorie des Familienfilms". Keynote-Speech at the international online symposium "Fate of a Format. Small-Gauge Cinema in Post-war Italy. Format, Geopolitics, Institutions".
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February 17 | Slovenska kinoteka, Ljubljana
Book presentation of Jurij Meden's book Kaj je kinoteka (What is a Cinema?) at Slovenska kinoteka. The book is the Slovenian translation of Scratches and Glitches, published in English in April 2021.
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January 30 | Arsenal, Berlin
Film program "The gatekeepers exist to be overthrown."
 Amos Vogel – Reprisen und Repliken: Emigration in the presence of Christoph Huber

January 26 | Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna (online)
Lecture in the seminar "The Reel Thing": Paolo Caneppele gives insight into the film-related collection of the Austrian Film Museum and Stefanie Zingl talks about the contextualization of amateur and family films.

January 26 | SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, Berlin
Conversation with Boris Lehman and Christoph Huber after the screening of "The gatekeepers exist to be overthrown."
 Amos Vogel – Reprisen und Repliken: Emigration.
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January 13 to 16 | Festsaal im Studierendenhaus Frankfurt and DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
Retrospective Austrian Mavericks - Another Austrian Film History, organized by Filmkollektiv Frankfurt, curated and presented by Christoph Huber.
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2021

November 18 (postponed) | Technisches Museum Wien
Michael Loebenstein: Panel Discussion on "Collecting" at the "Mediathek 60+1" Conference 

November 18 | Kinoteatr "Illusion", Moscow
Michael Loebenstein: Introduction (online) to The Wedding March (1928, Erich von Stroheim) at the Archive Film Festival Moscow (Organizer: Gosfilmofond of Russia, Austrian Cultural Forum Moscow)
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November 18 | Cinémathèque de Toulouse
Michael Loebenstein: Video introduction to the program "Shred, scratch, synch – Recycled Cinema, carte blanche à l'Austrian Film Museum"
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October 30 | Natural History Museum Vienna
Michael Loebenstein and Ursula Göhlich (NhM) talk about "Representation of dinosaurs in films" in the framework of the special exhibtion "CineSaurs. Fiction & Science"
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October 21 | Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien
Michael Loebenstein: Lecture "A destruction accompanied with false description of the object destroyed"

October 19 | online
Anna Högner, Michael Loebenstein: Lecture "Curating (Big) Data. A Film Museum Perspective" at the online conference "Going Digital with Difficult Histories" organized by Science politique de l'Université de Montréal, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Konread Wolf Filmuniversität Potsdam

October 16 | National Film Archive of Japan (online)
Michael Loebenstein: Keynote Lecture, World Day of Audio-Visual Heritage
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October 14 to 16 | One World Film Festival, Bucharest
Janneke van Dalen and Kevin Lutz at the One World Archive Workshop in Bucharest in cooperation with the Film University Bucharest, the Arhiva Nationala de Filme Bucharest and the One World Film Festival

October 12 | METRO Kinokulturhaus, Vienna
Katharina Müller: Impulse statement "Austrian Film?" and moderation panel "What is Austrian Film?" in the context of the event "Zeiten im Umbruch. Austrian Filmmaking in Diversity Check" organized by the Academy of Austrian Film

October 12 | Webinar online
Lecture Michael Loebenstein: "Visual Histories of 20th Century Occupation". Organizer: Horizon Results Booster Program of the European Research Coucil

October 12 | FDR Library and Museum (online)
Lecture Michael Loebenstein: "Objectives of the VHH Project" at the conference "Examining American Responses to the Holocaust: Digital Possibilities"

October 4 | Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone (online)
Filmfair Book Presentation: Jurij Meden will talk about his book Scatches and Glitches (FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen 2021) at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival.
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September 24 | University of Graz (online)
Presentation by Michael Loebenstein and Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann (HUJI) "Mapping Visual History of the Holocaust in the Digital Age" at the online-conference Digital Memory – Digital History – Digital Mapping. Transformationen von Erinnerungskulturen und Holocaust-Education
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September 22 | University of Vienna (online)
Katharina Müller: "Queere ephemere Medienräume als Ressource. Oder: How to preserve and curate sex, desire & intimate connectivity?" Lecture in the context of the annual conference of the Austrian Society for Gender Studies (ÖGGF)
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September 16 | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Paolo Caneppele at the workshop "Theater, Zirkus, temporäre Jahrmärkte – Perspektiven auf ambulante Unterhaltungsformen in ländlichen Räumen um 1900", organizid by the Kunstuniversität Linz and the Institut für Kulturwissenschaften und Theatergeschichte (IKT) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).
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September 2 | Kino Arsenal, Berlin
Michael Loebenstein at the discussion "What Do We Train for? Future Roles in Film Archiving and Curating" as part of the symposium After the Archive at the Archival Assembly #1 festival.
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August 22 | International Silent Film Festival, Bonn (online)
Janneke van Dalen at the online panel "Finding an Audience for (Silent) Film Heritage Today".
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August 19 | FeKK Ljubljana short film festival
Jurij Meden on "The Role and Responsibility of Film Curatorship in the Anthropocene" (presentation & discussion) at FeKK 2021.
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June 22 | Kino Tuškanac, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivana Miloš will present and introduce a curated film program with film works by Scottish filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait. The screening is part of Kratki utorak, a regular film series dedicated to experimental cinema.

June 8 to 10 | Diagonale, Graz
Stefan Huber moderates the school events of the Diagonale.
Diagonale kino:CLASS

June 2 | Crossing Europe Festival, Linz (and online)
Lecture by Katharina Müller: "Ephemere Spuren im Archiv und The Steps With No Name"
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March 4 to May 16, 2021 | Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna
The exhibition "Barbara Hammer: Women I Love" also featured a video interview with Barbara Hammer, which the artist Christiana Perschon (camera, sound, editing) realized together with Katharina Müller (interview) in New York in March 2018 on the occasion of our In Person series.
Further information | Excerpts from the Video

October 24, 2020 to April 18, 2021 | Kunsthalle Wien
The exhibition "Želimir Žilnik. Shadow Citizens" also presented the film essay Želimir Žilnik: The Films in My Life by Jurij Meden. The film reflects on the ways in which Žilnik's works intersect with wider film history.
Kunsthalle Wien | Introduction by Jurij Meden

March 26 | Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare (online)
Lecture Christoph Huber: "Postwar Avantgarde Cinema and the Continuation of Absolute Film" accompanying the exhibition Robert Breer TIME OUT at Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare.
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March 20 | Slovenska kinoteka (online)
Nadja Šičarov will be guest at the online panel "Filmski arhivi – primeri praks restavriranja filmske dediščine" about film restoration practices, organized by the Slovenska kinoteka as a part of the "International Frankophonie Day."
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March 19 | FIAF Award (online)
On March 19, the 2021 FIAF Award was presented to Amitabh Bachchan in recognition of his achievements and preservation of India's film heritage.
Acknowledgements came from Christopher Nolan and Martin Scorsese. The ceremony was hosted by Michael Loebenstein.
Recording of the award ceremony

March 2 | FIAF (online)
Lecture Michael Loebenstein: "Recycling Cinema" at the 6th FIAF Online Programming Winter School (in partnership with: La Cinémathèque française and Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé)
Further information

February 1 | FU Berlin (online)
Michael Loebenstein spoke in Nikolaus Perneczky's project seminar ("World Cinema Heritage: Global Film History, Archival Work, and Curatorial Practice") about "Cinema and Restitution," as well as about questions regarding world cinema and the canon, and digitization.

January 18 | Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna (online)
Lecture by Stefanie Zingl on the archiving of amateur and family films at the Austrian Film Museum

January 15 | Institute for Romance Studies, University of Vienna (online)
Katharina Müller: Lecture "Cinécriture-femme: Kleine Geschichte frankophoner Filmemacherinnen"

January 8 | Institute for Germanistik, University of Salzburg (online)
Stefan Huber leads a module of the seminar "Praktische Filmarbeit im Deutschunterricht"
Further information

2020

November 26 | SCREENFEST Queer Film Festivals in context – Online/Offline Panels, Symposium, Film Festival
Katharina Müller will be talking with Claudia Slanar, Florian Widegger, Dietmar Schwärzler, Carola Gramann, and Margit Hauser about festivals as a source of inspiration for archives and collections. An event of Theater, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna, in cooperation with Queertactics. Queer_feminist Film Festival Vienna 2020, and Belvedere 21/Ursula Blickle Video Archive.
Further Information

November 16 to 21 | Youki – International Youth Media Festival, Wels
Stefan Huber leads online film analysis workshops for school classes, and (together with Dina Bukva and Leni Gruber) forms part of the jury for the festival's Austrian Prize, awarded by KINO VOD CLUB.
Youki

October 30 | Institute of Rural History (online)
The workshop of the European Rural History Film Association will present Austrian and international activities in the field of archiving and research. Stefanie Zingl talks about the research projects of the Austrian Film Museum.
Further information

October 28 | Film Restored – The Film Heritage Festival (online)
Workshop report with Petra Belc (Kinoklub Zagreb) and Nadja Šičarov (Austrian Film Museum): "Preserving Yugoslav Experimental Amateur Film Heritage: The films of Tatjana Ivančić", followed by the screening of the short film program "Tatjana Ivančić: Experimental films".
Further information

October 8 | IBA_Wien (WEST)
Katharina Müller and Janneke van Dalen present the film collection and filmmakers from the Film Museum's amateur film collection at the symposium "Women Build City. The City Through a Female Lens".
Further Information

September 16 | University of Applied Arts Vienna (online)
Vanessa Scharrer: "That's Original! Preservation and Restoration of Photographic and Motion Picture Material". Lecture as part of the International Summer School 2020 Remote organized by the University of Applied Arts Vienna on the topic of Sustaining Cultural Heritage through Preventive Conservation and Collection Care.

September 10 (postponed from June 4) | Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv
As part of an exhibition on Viennese cinema-history Günter Krenn will talk about Austrian film production from the beginning to the early sound film era (Ein Gebrauchsgegenstand mit künstlerischen Elementen. Bemerkungen zur österreichischen Filmproduktion von den Anfängen bis in die Tonfilmzeit).
Further information

May 27 | Orphan Film Symposium - Online
Petra Belc (Cineclub Zagreb) and Nadja Šičarov (Austrian Film Museum) present "The Maritime Mini-documentaries: Restoring the Amateur Experimental" and Super 8 Sound Films of Tatjana Ivančić (Yugoslavia, 1970s).
Watch online

May 14 | University of Applied Arts Vienna
Stefan Huber leads an online unit of the seminar "a course on animals and art" at the Institute for Visual and Media Arts, Sculpture and Space/University of Applied Arts (seminar leader: Eva Seiler). Title of his lecture: "(Human) animal in the surrealistic films".
Further information

March 20 (cancelled) | Cinéma du réel, Paris
Nadja Šičarov: Presentation of the restoration work of Grand Opera (1979, James Benning) during the European Classic Documentary Meeting at the Festival Cinema du réel.
Further information

March 7 | Technical Museum Vienna
Michael Loebenstein and Franziska Mühlbacher, head of Education at the Technical Museum, guide through the "Special Effects" exhibition, while Victoria Grinzinger and Stefan Huber show film clips and discuss how films use special effects to create fantastic worlds.
Further information

March 3 | Cinémathèque française, Paris
Jurij Meden talks about Portrait of a Programmer at the 5th FIAF/Cinémathèque française Winter School "Programming Film Heritage"

February 27 | Berlinale/silent green Kulturquartier
Michael Loebenstein at the Panel "ANTI-CINEMA, COUNTER-ARCHIVES. Strategies of dissident film preservation, restoration and circulation". An invitation of Forum and Forum Expanded.
Arsenal website

February 12 | International Film Studies Conference, Venice
Paolo Caneppele: Participation in the panel "Amateur & Archive Film Festivals" during the International Film Studies Conference "Reframing Film Festivals. Histories, Economies, Cultures". Title of contribution: I festival del cinema amatoriale. Metodi di ricerca, fonti, storia, prospettive.
Further information

February 2 | Stiftung Universität Hildesheim
Michael Loebenstein talks about "Visual History of the Holocaust. Rethinking Curating in the Digital Age" at the international symposium "Ethics of Curating".
Symposium | Research project

January 27 | Malach Centre for Visual History, Prague
Michael Loebenstein: Participation in the Expert Panel "Institutions and Oral History in Europe, 'Small' and 'Big' Perspectives and Possibilities, Research and Technology"

Malach Centre
January 14 | University Salzburg
Lecture Katharina Müller: "Über Umwege: Ins Österreichische Filmmuseum"

January 8 | University of Applied Arts Vienna
Stefan Huber leads a unit of the seminar "a course on animals" at the Institute for Visual and Media Arts, Sculpture and Space/University of Applied Arts (seminar leader: Eva Seiler). Title of his lecture: "(Human) animal and cinematic apparatus. A failed attempt at domestication".
Further information

2019

December 19 | Università degli Studi di Udine
Lecture by Paolo Caneppele on archiving practice at the conference "Non-theatrical film and non-broadcast video": Sulla pratica di registrare dalla televisione e la sua 'cristallizzazione' nelle raccolte di videocassette. Per un approccio prassiologico delle strategie di acquisizione e conservazione negli archivi.
Further information

December 12 | Theatermuseum, Vienna
On occasion of a symposium to the 100^th birthday of Austrian actor Fritz Muliar Günter Krenn will speak about Muliar's work for film and television. A book will be published in 2020.
Theatermuseum

December 10 | University of Vienna, Center for Translation Studies
Lecture by Ivana Miloš: "Linguistic and cinematic challenges in subtitling feature films"
Further information

December 10 | Slovensko mladinsko gledališče, Ljubljana
Jurij Meden at the panel discussion "Ko gre umetnost v partizane" on partisan film.
Further information

December 9 | Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3
"AMATEURINNEN* – Sur la perte de contrôle comme la meilleure façon de tuer les pères": Lecture by Katharina Müller, Stefanie Zingl, and Sandra Ladwig (University of Applied Arts Vienna) at the symposium Tuer les pères : femmes derrière la caméra dans les films de famille.

November 25 | Cineteca di Bologna
Paolo Caneppele: Lecturer at the all-day educational course at the Cineteca di Bologna: "The archives of living images: preserving to show".

November 27 I Pupille – Kino in der Uni, Frankfurt/Main
As part of the "Remake. Frankfurter Frauen Film Tage" ums freiwerden hätte es ja gehen sollen by Elfriede Irrall was shown, followed by a conversation with Stefanie Zingl (Österreichisches Filmmuseum) and Ulle Zeilfelder
Further information

November 22 | Youki - International Youth Media Festival, Wels
Stefan Huber leads workshops on film analysis for children and young people.
Further information

November 14 | AMIA Conference, Baltimore/Maryland
Nadja Šičarov and Janneke van Dalen present together with F. Gracy (Kent State University), Erwin Verbruggen (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision), and Catherine Gadbois-Laurendeau (Cinémathèque Québécoise) the panel Share That Knowledge! Developing Strategies for Knowledge-Sharing about Audiovisual Archives at the annual conference of AMIA (Associciation of Moving Image Archivists).

November 11 | Bookstore Bestseller (Ekazent), Vienna
Stefanie Zingl presents amateur films as part of the book presentation "Motorsport in Austria 1945 to 1970" by Matthias Marschik.

November 8 | Duisburger Filmwoche
Buch launch & reading "Gerhard Friedl. Ein Arbeitsbuch" (Edited by Volker Pantenburg) in the presence of Michael Loebenstein at the Duisburger Filmwoche.
Duisburger Filmwoche

October 31 | Haus der Geschichte, Sankt Pölten
Workshop with Michael Loebenstein and Stefanie Zingl, among others, as part of the symposium "Bewegte Landbilder" on the development of the film collection "Niederösterreich privat."

October 17 | Austrian Cultural Forum, Kino Theater Zwezda, Moscow
Michael Loebenstein and Hanna Schimek presented our project "on the margin : the city" in the framework of the project presentation "I am Moscow"

July 18 & 23 | dotdotdot4plus, Wien
Stefan Huber presents – together with Lisa Mai – the film programs "Jazzoo! Tiere im Groove" and "Ich ziehe in den Zoo" at the short film festival for all "4 plus"

May 23 | Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
As a part of an exhibition dedicated to the Austrian poster artist Victor Slama at Wienbibliothek, Paolo Caneppele and Günter Krenn will present examples of Slama's sketches, which are part of the Film Museum's collection. Texts of the two authors will be published in the catalogue of the exhibition.
Further information

May 20 | Diagonale, Graz
Keynote lecture at the industry meeting of the Diagonale by Stefan Huber on the topic "How much cinema does film education need"?
Diagonale

May 16 | Sapientia Universität, Cluj-Napoca
Lecture Stefanie Zingl "Preserving Memories of Amateur Filmmakers: Oral Histories in the Archive" in the framework of a workshop.

May 6 & 21 | Bezirksmuseum Floridsdorf and Hauptbibliothek Wien
Janneke van Dalen and Stefanie Zingl present ephemeral films at the book launch of Die Donauwiese by Matthias Marschik.

April 12 & 13 | Arsenal Kino, Berlin
Christoph Huber will hold the opening lecture of the retrospective dedicated to Swedish director Bo Widerberg on April 12 and will introduce Widerberg's Sjöwall-Wahlöö adaptation Mannen på taket (Mann auf dem Dach, 1976) on April 13.

March 15 to 17 | Kino im Deutschen Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
In the framework of a hommage to Robert Hossein, presented by Filmkollektiv Frankfurt, our colleague Christoph Huber will give introductions.
Filmkollektiv Frankfurt

From March 15 | Bildraum 07, Vienna
Tricky Women | Tricky Realities 2019 present works by Stacey Steers ("Edge of Alchemy") at Bildraum 07. Elisabeth Streit will speak at the exhibition opening.
Tricky Women

March 13 | Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien
"AMATEURINNEN": Katharina Müller & Stefanie Zingl will present and lecture about films made by women from the film collection of the Austrian Film Museum

March 5 | WIFAR - Wiener Filmarchiv der Arbeiterbewegung
Stefanie Zingl presents an ephemeral film program made by women from the film collection of the Austrian Film Museum in the framework of RRRIOT festival. Discussion afterwards.
RRRIOT Festival

February 21 | Vienna City Library
In the context of the exhibition "100% Schlager" at the Wienbibliothek (Vienna City Library) Günter Krenn will speak about popular songs in early talking movies: "Muss in jedem Film gesungen werden? Bemerkungen zum Schlager im frühen Tonfilm".
Further information

February 19 | EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Paris
First official project presentation of "Visual History of the Holocaust" in Paris by our research partners CERCEC and EHESS. Michael Loebenstein will present the project as guest speaker and deputy project leader.
EHESS

January 19 | Arsenal Kino, Berlin
During the opening weekend of the retrospective devoted to Michail Kalik in cooperation with the Film Museum Christoph Huber joins a panel discussion with Erika and Ulrich Gregor, Barbara Wurm, and Anna Malgina about the Soviet-jewish director's outstanding role in the cinema of the Thaw as well as an exile filmmaker.
Arsenal

January 17 | Literaturmuseum der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
A panel discussion with Christoph Huber and Michael Rohrwasser about the literary "phenomenon" Johannes Mario Simmel and the film adaptation of the Viennese writer's bestseller novels.
Filmarchiv Austria

January 15 | Beeld & Geluid, Hilversum/The Netherlands
The first live webinar for the Winter School for Audiovisual Archiving 2019. Guest speaker is Kevin Lutz, co-head of the film collection of the Austrian Film Museum.
Webinar Beeld & Geluid

2018

December 7 | Austria Center Vienna, Austria
Michael Loebenstein takes part at the plenary session of the conference "#EuropeForCulture," which was jointly organized by the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission.
Further information

November 28 to 30 | Kommunalkino Bremen
The Bremen Conference "Research in Film and History: New Approaches, Debates and Projects" seeks to explore a point of intersection between the disciplines of film studies and history, paying particular attention to new approaches to this interdisciplinary field. Michael Loebenstein will present the EU Horizon 2020 project "Liberation Footage and Digital Approaches" and take part in the discussion "Interactive Film as Research Method."
Further information

November 22 | mumok, Vienna
Exhibition talk with Roland Fischer-Briand in the framework of Photo/Politics/Austria. The exhibition takes you on a photographic journey through Austrian history from 1918 to the present.
Further information

November 16 to 21 | Kolkata, India
Jurij Meden will be teaching at the Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India, an initiative of Film Heritage Foundation and FIAF, in association witha number of FIAF archives and other organizations and companies in the film heritage field.
Further information

November 4 to 6 | European Forum at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Ingo Zechner (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut) and Michael Loebenstein present private films from the collection of the Film Museum at the conference "Nach dem 'Anschluss': Remembering Austria's 1938."
Hebrew University

October 13 | Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Elisabeth Streit and Tom Waibel: Lecture "Amos Vogel – 'A Travelling Salesman of culture'" in the context of a symposium on the subject of mediators between cultures, organized by the Museum der Moderne Salzburg.
more on the symposium

September 22 to 23 | Universität Cambridge (Queens' College)
At the third edition of Picturing Austrian Cinema, a Cambridge Research Symposium hold at Queen's College, Michael Loebenstein and Katharina Müller lectured Austrian Cinema.
more on the symposium

September 27 to 30 | 25 FPS, Zagreb
Alejandro Bachmann is member of the critics' Jury
more on the festival

September 24 | Lab80 / Cinescatti Archive, Bergamo
Paolo Caneppele: Lecture in the context of the educational training project "Re-framing home movies - L'eredità ritrovata - I film di famiglia dall'archivio alla valorizzazione pubblica," organized by three Italian Film Archives who preserve Italian amateur films and home movies.
Further information

September 20 & 21 | DOKUMENTAR - FILM - KULTUR, Cologne
Alejandro Bachmann: Lecture and moderation of a workshop on film education in the context of the symposium
more on the symposium (German only)

July 7 & 12 | Kino unter Sternen (Cinema Under the Stars), Vienna
Elisabeth Streit and Hans Langsteiner on The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Talk with Michael Loebenstein about Wilhelm Pellert's film Jesus von Ottakring (1975)

July 7 | Belvedere 21, Vienna
Based on his multimedia exhibition Pluriversum. The Poetic Power of Theory, Alexander Kluge will organize a film and discussion workshop with his guests (a.o. Michael Loebenstein) at Belvedere 21.
Further Information

June 20 | University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Alejandro Bachmann: Paper on "Film education and the Institution: a media-ecological perspective" in the context of the "Scottish International Film Education Conference"

June 5 | Vienna City Library
Exhibition talk "Film und Geschichte - Propaganda in laufenden Bildern" with Michael Loebenstein and Ingo Zechner (LBI) in the context of the exhibition "'Wir wissen es, daß diese Beamtenschaft ihre Pflicht auch im neuen Wien tun wird'- Die Wiener Stadtverwaltung 1938"
Further information

June 4 | Gewerbehaus, Wien
Panel "Cultural memory or digital blackout": Representatives of Filmmuseum and Filmarchiv Austria will discuss challenges of film and video archiving as well as possibilities for the long-term preservation of the audiovisual heritage in Austria.

May 17 to 19 | Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino, Trient
Paolo Caneppele: Presentation of "La Grande Guerra in Internet. Pratiche di presentazione" at the international conference "Rewinding the Great War"

April 11 to 14 I Kinodvor/Slovenska Kinoteka, Llubljana
Alejandro Bachmann: Lecture on experimental cinema in film education & two workshops in the context of the "2. International Conference on Film Education"
More information and video documentation

March 16 to 25 | One World Romania 2018, Bucharest
Michael Loebenstein will present Cinema Futures by Michael Palm at the International Human Rights and Documentary Festival "One World Romania" and will discuss the importance of film archives and museums for civil society with academics, curators and filmmakers.
Festivalwebsite

March 13 to 18 I Diagonale, Graz
Alejandro Bachmann: Introductions and Q&A's with fimmakers in the context of the film program "Live Wire Province. Post-1968 Film Tropes of the Provincial."
Programm (PDF) | Diagonale

March 7 | La Cinémathèque française, Paris
Lecture Alexander Horwath: "La vie passée, repenser la restauration des films: quelques notes" at the festival Toute la mémoire du monde 2018
La Cinémathèque française

March 1 | Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Median, Graz
Lecture by Michael Loebenstein and Paolo Caneppele ("Zwischen Detritus und Überrest: das Treibgut des Filmes") in the context of the exhibition "Was vom Kino übrig blieb"
Künstlerhaus Graz

February 22-23 | Università La Sapienza, Rome
Lecture by Paolo Caneppele at a training course dedicated to the archival treatment of family films organized by ANAI Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana ("I film di famiglia negli archivi audiovisivi e nelle biblioteche. Metodologie e pratiche archivistiche")

January 29 | International Film Festival, Rotterdam
Alejandro Bachmann: "Gazing at the Stars, Reflecting on Present and Past" – Conversation with Johann Lurf on his film ★ at the symposium "Over the Moon. Imaging Technologies versus Popular Imagination."
IFFR

2017

December 3 | Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna
Panel discussion in the framework of the exhibition "Analog_Digital" at the Filmarchiv Austria with Nikolaus Wostry (FAA), Janneke van Dalen (Austrian Film Museum), Michaela Mayr (ONB), Christoph Bauer (ORF).
Filmarchiv Austria

October 24 | Angewandte Innovation Laboratory (AIL), Vienna
Film screening with talk about collecting objects in and outside of museums. With Paolo Caneppele and Michael Salge (Raumprojekt PerpetuuMobile 2.3, KAMA Wien)

October 21 | KV Leipzig
International Home Movie Day with Stefanie Zingl from the Austrian Film Museum 
Home Movie Day

October 18 I Austrian Film Museum, Vienna
Alejandro Bachmann: Filmprogram "The Cinema, Every Day I The Cinematic Everyday" with introduction and discussion in the context of the lecture series "Figurations of the Everyday" at the Theatre-, Film- and Media-Departement of the University of Vienna

September 26 | Wiener Filmarchiv der Arbeiterbewegung (WIFAR)
Paolo Caneppele presents the Film Museum project "Wien bewegt"

September 13 | Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Exhibition opening with Jeanine Meerapfel and Alexander Horwath "Tell It to the Stones. The Work of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub"
Further information

June 15 to 21 | Filmkollektiv Frankfurt
Introductions by Christoph Huber and Elisabeth Streit in the context of the Bo Widerberg Retrospective "Leben um jeden Preis"
Further information

June 15 I Svenska Filminstitutet, Stockholm
Alejandro Bachmann: Presentation on the principles of film education at the Austrian Film Museum

June 7 | Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal
Stefanie Zingl: "The List in a Suitcase. Amateur Film as Visual List" at the conference Cinema in the Eye of the Collector
Further information

May 23 | Museum of the History of Photography, St. Petersburg
Workshop with Stefanie Zingl "Projecting Souvenirs. Home Movie Practice in Practice"
Photos from the Workshop

May 19 | Ehemaliges k. und k. Post- und Telegraphenamt, Vienna
Alejandro Bachmann: Panel "Bewegte Bilder: Film und Video als Medium der Architektur" in the framework of the exhibition "Entwerfen" at the TU Wien.
Further Information

May 18 | Lichtspiel Kinemathek, Bern
Stefanie Zingl and Raoul Schmidt: "Fragmentary Recollections. Shadows of Sound in Small Gauge Cinema" at the international conference The Noisy Amateur Film
Further information

May 6 | George Eastman House, Rochester
Alexander Horwath: "My Life without Nitrate" (The James Card Memorial Lecture) at the Nitrate Picture Show 2017
Program Nitrate Picture Show 2017 (PDF)

May 5 | George Eastman House, Rochester
Panel discussion with Kodak CEO Jeff Clarke and Alexander Horwath after the screening of Michael Palm's Cinema Futures (2016)

May 3 to 7 | 22. International Film Symposium, Bremen
Alejandro Bachmann: Paper on "Film and Space - On the spatial language of film, exemplified through the museum space"

April 27 | Depot, Vienna
Book Launch Kino Buch. Filme, die ich gesehen habe. Protokolle der Stenotypistin Charlotte Gerth aus Leipzig by Katrin Erthel/Tabea Nixdorff and discussion with Paolo Caneppele

April 19 to 23 I Documentary Film Festival, Hamburg
Alejandro Bachmann: Program and discussion on the relationship of analogue film and documentary practice

April 15 | Dartmouth College, Hanover/USA
Panel with Alexander Horwath on "Film Advocacy: Museums, Archives, Collections" at the interdisciplinary conference "A Century of Filmkritik and Beyond"
Further information

April 4 | Amerika-Haus, Vienna
Panel discussion "Die globale Bedeutung des amerikanischen Avantgarde-Films" with Bruce Jenkins and Mark Toscano, moderated by Alexander Horwath. In cooperation with Amerika-Haus and Diagonale.
Further information

March 30 | Diagonale, Graz
Discussion with Alexander Horwath about film curatorship ("Film: Was bleibt?"). Introductions and Q&A's by Alejandro Bachmann in the context of the program "This is not America: Austrian Drifters".

March 14 | Universita' degli studi di Udine (Gorizia)
Lecture/Workshop Paolo Caneppele: "Lista, archivio, filmografia. Empatia ed emozioni nel lavoro archivistico"

February 3 | British Film Institute, London
Alejandro Bachmann: Introduction at the book launch of The Cinema Hypothesis by Alain Bergala and participation at the discussion event on issues of film education theory, practice and culture
Live-stream of the event

January 13 | Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lissabon
O Lugar do Analógico e o Desafio do Digital": Panel with Alexander Horwath on the issue of digitalisation and film preservation (ANIM: 20 ANOS)

2016

25.11. to 4.12. | Festival Internazionale di Cinema Dal, Milano
Alejandro Bachmann and Claudio Santancini give introductions to four film programs showcasing restorations of experimental cinema

25.11. | École nationale des chartes, Paris
"A Utopia of Film – Projection is Restoration": Film-Talk with Alexander Horwath and Natacha Laurent at the conference "Patrimoine et patrimonialisation du cinéma depuis les années 1960"
Program (PDF, in French)

23.11.-25.11. | Youki - International Youth Media Festival, Wels
Stefan Huber: Education program "Bildgestaltung & Schnitt (or: How a Star is Born)."

22.11. | Kino Tuškanac, Zagreb
Christoph Huber introduces the program "Film mosaic: Magic of the Austrian Film Museum" on the occasion of the Short Tuesday series.
More Information

07.11.-13.11. | Duisburger Filmwoche
Alejandro Bachmann is part of the ARTE Jury

20.10. | Technisches Museum, Vienna
Project presentation "Wien bewegt!" by Paolo Caneppele, Raoul Schmidt at the panel meeting "Aufnahme läuft. Private Videobestände – Öffentliche Archive?"

28.9. | Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz
Steirischer Herbst is screening the latest film of Apichatpong Weerasethakul for the first time in Graz: Cemetery of Splendour. After the screening: Alexander Horwath in conversation with Claus Philipp.

21.9.-23.9. | Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt
Alejandro Bachmann: Moderation of the panel "Film als Medium der Begegnung und Bewältigung?" and film talk after the screening of Babylon by Youssef Chebbi in the context of the symposium „Film, Flucht und Interkultur".

15.9.-17.9. | Warburg-Haus, Hamburg
Alejandro Bachmann: Lecture "Film ist. I Denken ist. – Zur Sichtbarmachung assoziativen Bilddenkens in Film ist. 1-6" at the symposium "Visuelle Assoziation"

7.7. und 11.7. | Kino unter Sternen (Cinema Under the Stars), Vienna
"Hoffnung, wo es keine gibt": Film-Talk with Elisabeth Streit and Hans Langsteiner; "Der GLANZ des Ö-Films – Nacht und Tag": Film-Talk with Alexander Horwath and Judith Wieser-Huber
20.-22.6. | Universidad de Navarra, Spain
Raoul Schmidt: Lecture "Home Movies as Ego-Documents" at the TiMeDoc Conference Time and Memory in Non-fiction Cinema

1.5. | Kunsthalle Wien
L'Exposition Imaginaire: Alexander Horwath talks about different forms of exhibiting and the idea of a museum on screen.
Video of the talk (in German)

27.4-1.5. I 21. Internationales Symposium Film, Bremen
Alejandro Bachmann: Lecture "Mit der linken Hand sehen. Utopie der Moderne und kindlicher Blick"
More Information

14.4. | Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur, Vienna
Symposium :aichinger - digital human: Talk with Alexander Horwath about "Ilse Aichinger und das Kino"

8.-13.3. | Diagonale, Graz
Alejandro Bachmann: Introductions to the film program "Filmische Widerreden. Österreich, die Waldheim-Jahre" (daily); Alexander Horwath in conversation with Michael Haneke (13.3.)
Program "Filmische Widerreden"(PDF)

2015

21.11. | Youki-Internationales Jugend Medien Festival, Wels
Stefan Huber: Seminar für Lehrer/innen zum Thema "Filmvermittlung als Spurenlesen" im Rahmen des Festivals

12. & 13.11. | Kinothek Asta Nielsen e.V., Frankfurt
Paolo Caneppele: Vortrag "Die Amateurfilmschachtel" und (gemeinsam mit Raoul Schmidt) Filmprogramm "Amateurfilme im Österreichischen Filmmuseum" im Rahmen von Privat-Vorstellung: Internationales Amateurfilmfestival

13.11. | Tiroler Landesmuseum – Museum im Zeughaus, Innsbruck
Oliver Hanley, Adelheid Heftberger: Vortrag und Projektvorstellung „World Wide Wochenschau – Das Online-Videoprojekt Österreich in Bild und Ton: Die Jahre 1935 bis 1937“ im Rahmen der Jahrestagung der IASA-Ländergruppe Deutschland/Schweiz und der Medien Archive Austria

5.11. | Museum Documentation Centre, Zagreb
Alejandro Bachmann: Vortrag "The How and the What - On conceptualizing Curatorship of Film" beim Symposium Museums of Film, Film in the Museum.

29.10. | Institut für Kultur-, Literatur- und Musikwissenschaft, Universität Klagenfurt
Paolo Caneppele und Raoul Schmidt: Präsentation der Tätigkeit des Filmmuseums im Bereich Amateurfilm und Buchvorstellung Abenteuer Alltag im Rahmen der Konferenz Bewegtbilder und Alltagskultur(en) – von Super 8 über Video zum Handyfilm. Praktiken von Amateuren im Prozess der gesellschaftlichen Ästhetisierung.
Mehr zur Konferenz

16.10. I LUFF - Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival
Alejandro Bachmann: Einführungen zum Filmprogramm "From Mosaic to Mosaic: Fragments from the History of the Austrian Avantgarde - 1955 to 2011"

9.10. | London Film Festival, BFI Southbank
Podiumsdiskussion "Film" mit Alexander Horwath, Tacita Dean und Christopher Nolan

2.10. | Wiener Konzerthaus
Oliver Hanley & Alexander Horwath: Vortrag "The Case of Lena Smith", Berio Saal; Präsentation von Josef von Sternbergs Salvation Hunters mit Live-Musik von Brad Mehldau, Großer Saal

24.9. | Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Berlin
Alejandro Bachmann: Teilnahme mit Impulsvortrag bei Tagung "Konzepte und Methoden zur Vermittlung von Filmgeschichte".

19.6. | Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt
Alexander Horwath: Werkstattgespräch "Kontext Kino" im Rahmen des Masterstudiengangs Filmkultur

26.5. | National Film Archive, Prag
Alejandro Bachmann: Vortrag "Don't Believe the Hype: Cinema as a Political Space of Film Education" im Rahmen des Seminars "Archival Film Today"

9.5. | City 46, Bremen
Alejandro Bachmann: Filmprogramm Science | Fiction. Vergegenwärtigung des Außergewöhnlichen mit Einführung im Rahmen des Symposiums "Die Zukunft ist jetzt. Science Fiction-Kino als audiovisueller Entwurf von Geschichte(n), Räumen und Klängen"

5.5. | Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen
Alejandro Bachmann: Vortrag mit Filmprogramm Die Vergangenheit unter ihren Vorzeichen für die Gegenwart aktualisieren im Rahmen der Reihe "Archive"

27.3. | Brandenburgisches Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften, Potsdam
Alejandro Bachmann: Panel-Teilnahme Bildung und Vermittlung im Rahmen der Tagung "Audiovisuelles Kulturerbe. Archivierung, Nutzung, Vermittlung"

15.3. | Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Oliver Hanley: Teilnahme an der Podiumsdiskussion "Basisarbeit. Filmreihen, Kommunale Kinos, Filmarchive, Multimediale Sammlungen, Digitalisierung" im Rahmen des Symposiums "blimp 30: film.zeit.schrift" zum 30. Gründungsjahr der Filmzeitschrift blimp
"blimp 30"-Projekt

2.3. | Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt
Alejandro Bachmann berichtet über Prinzipien der Filmvermittlung im Österreichischen Filmmuseum im Rahmen der Tagung "Film & Schule in Hessen: Welche Unterstüzung brauchen Lehrer/innen in Unterricht und Ausbildung?"

16.1. | Národní filmový archiv, Prag
Alejandro Bachmann: Film Education and Cinema Space. Panelteilnahme im Rahmen der Konferenz "Film Education for the 21st Century"
Mehr zum Programm

2014

21.11. | YOUKI – Internationales Jugend Medien Festival, Wels Alejandro Bachmann: Seminar für Lehrende: Filmvermittlung als Spurensuche im Rahmen der Vermittlungsreihe und als Kooperation mit dem Festiva

20.11. | Extrauni – die Zeitbasierten im OK, Linz Alejandro Bachmann und Raoul Schmidt: Vortrag und Gesprächsmoderation nach Filmpräsentation für Masterstudenten der Zeitbasierten Medien der Kunstuniversität Linz
Extrauni

18.11. | cinefest, Hamburg Alejandro Bachmann im Gesprächspodium zum Thema "abgedreht, angelaufen, ausgestellt. Filmvermittlung durch Ausstellen?" in der Zentralbibliothek der Bücherhallen Hamburg

23.9. | Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt
Alejandro Bachmann: Das regelmäßig im ÖFM durchgeführte Vermittlungsprogramm Die Kino Maschine wird vor Ort mit Schüler/innen durchgeführt.

21.9. | University of Cambridge, St. John’s College
Alexander Horwath: Vortrag zum österreichischen Avantgardefilm und Panel-Leitung im Rahmen der Forschungskonferenz Picturing Austrian Cinema 

8.5. | Universität Bremen & City 46, Bremen
Alejandro Bachmann: Filmprogramm On Air. Eine Sprossen- und Zackenschrift des 20. Jahrhunderts mit Einführung. Im Rahmen des Symposiums "Film Geschichte / Produktion und Erfahrung von Geschichte durch Bewegtbild und Ton"

2.4. | Udine/Gorizia
Paolo Caneppele: Items Misplaced in Time. Film Industry's Trade Marks (1893-1920). Vortrag im Rahmen der 21. International Film Studies Conference: At the Borders of (Film) History. Temporality, Archaeology, Theories

19.-22.3. | Diagonale - Festival des österreichischen Films
Alejandro Bachmann, Alexander Horwath, Regina Schlagnitweit: Ein anderes Land: Fünf österreichische Filmgeschichten. Gemeinsam mit Sebastian Höglinger und Barbara Pichler (Diagonale) zusammengestelltes Programm anlässlich des 50. Jubiläums des ÖFM

14.1. | Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien
Georg Wasner: Relationale Ästhetik, Aktualität & Nachzeitlichkeit filmdokumentarischer Überlieferungen. Vortrag im Rahmen des Seminars "Filmavantgarde IV" von Prof. Gabriele Jutz

23.9. | Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt
Alejandro Bachmann: Das regelmäßig im ÖFM durchgeführte Vermittlungsprogramm Die Kino Maschine wird vor Ort mit Schüler/innen durchgeführt.

21.9. | University of Cambridge, St. John’s College
Alexander Horwath: Vortrag zum österreichischen Avantgardefilm und Panel-Leitung im Rahmen der Forschungskonferenz Picturing Austrian Cinema 

8.5. | Universität Bremen & City 46, Bremen
Alejandro Bachmann: Filmprogramm On Air. Eine Sprossen- und Zackenschrift des 20. Jahrhunderts mit Einführung. Im Rahmen des Symposiums "Film Geschichte / Produktion und Erfahrung von Geschichte durch Bewegtbild und Ton"

2.4. | Udine/Gorizia
Paolo Caneppele: Items Misplaced in Time. Film Industry's Trade Marks (1893-1920). Vortrag im Rahmen der 21. International Film Studies Conference: At the Borders of (Film) History. Temporality, Archaeology, Theories

19.-22.3. | Diagonale - Festival des österreichischen Films
Alejandro Bachmann, Alexander Horwath, Regina Schlagnitweit: Ein anderes Land: Fünf österreichische Filmgeschichten. Gemeinsam mit Sebastian Höglinger und Barbara Pichler (Diagonale) zusammengestelltes Programm anlässlich des 50. Jubiläums des ÖFM

14.1. | Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien
Georg Wasner: Relationale Ästhetik, Aktualität & Nachzeitlichkeit filmdokumentarischer Überlieferungen. Vortrag im Rahmen des Seminars "Filmavantgarde IV" von Prof. Gabriele Jutz

2013

28.11. | Cinémathèque royale de Belgique, Brüssel
Oliver Hanley: Vision and strategy for digitisation at the Austrian Film Museum. Präsentation im Rahmen des jährlichen Treffens der Cinema Expert Group – Subgroup Film Heritage der Europäischen Kommission

21.11. | 26. Internationaler Filmhistorischer Kongress, Hamburg
Paolo Caneppele: Schmalfilme, schmal zensuriert? Die Zensurpraxis der Amateur- und Schmalfilme 1928-38

15.11. | University of Copenhagen, Kopenhagen
Oliver Hanley, Adelheid Heftberger: Curation and Presentation in the Digital Age. Vortrag im Rahmen der LARM-Konferenz "Digital Archives, Audiovisual Media and Cultural Memory"

21.10. | British Film Institute – JP Conservation Centre, Berkamsted
Adelheid Heftberger: Small is beautiful? Digitisation, Publication and "Digital" Curation at the Austrian Film Museum. Vortrag bei einem Conservation Technology Seminar

9.10. | Auditorium della Regione, Pordenone
Oliver Hanley: Präsentation des Projekts EFG1914 im Rahmen der XXXII. Giornate del Cinema Muto

9.8. | Eisenerz, Steiermark
Georg Wasner: Romantisch, Stählern. Vortrag zu Walter Ruttmanns Metall des Himmels im Rahmen des Filmprogramms "Eisenerz im Film": Eine hundertjährige Filmgeschichte; Block II: Nationalsymbol IndustriearbeiterInnen

2.7. | Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna
Alejandro Bachmann, Oliver Hanley: Filmgeschichte im Österreichischen Filmmuseum. Vortrag im Rahmen des Seminars "Präsentation und Distributionsformen von Filmgeschichte" der Universität Zürich

22.6. | Charles University, Prag
Oliver Hanley: Digitisation and "Non-National" Film Archives – Maintaining Archival Identity in a Transitory Age. Panelvortrag im Rahmen der 8. Jahreskonferenz des NECS – Network for European Cinema and Media Studies "Media Politics – Political Media"
 
19.6. | Městská knihovna, Prag
Adelheid Heftberger: "Towards a Political Engagement with Open Access in Scholarly Publishing" – Round Table im Rahmen der 8. Jahreskonferenz des NECS

17.6. | Mediateca Regionale Pugliese, Bari
Adriana Noviello: Film Restoration. Vortrag im Rahmen des Workshops "Digital Heritage – Audiovisual Archives in the Digital Era"

17.6. | Universität Wien
Alejandro Bachmann: 3 Aspekte der Filmvermittlung im musealen Kontext – Dispositiv, Historizität, Spurensuche. Vortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Filmische Bildung" des Fachbereichs Deutsche Philologie

11.6. | Porgy and Bess, Wien
Adelheid Heftberger: Einführung zu Po Zakonu im Rahmen der 100-Jahr-Feier des Österreichischen Komponistenverbandes

4.5. | Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Alejandro Bachmann in einer Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema "Vom überraschenden Lernen: Kinder erfahren Experimentalfilme"

17.4.-21.4. | Courtisane Festival, Ghent
Alejandro Bachmann, Alexander Horwath: Präsentation von 3 Filmprogrammen zum Thema Artistic Research

7.4. & 10.4. | E Tudo Verdade / It's All True, Sao Paolo und Rio de Janeiro
Adelheid Heftberger: Publikumsgespräche mit Amir Labaki über Dziga Vertov und die Vertov-Sammlung des Filmmuseums im Rahmen der Retrospektive

2012

7.12. | Studienzentrum Filmarchiv Austria, Wien
Paolo Caneppele: Vortrag Das schöne Behältnis. Über Schachteln, Aufschriften und Kuverts im Rahmen der Jahrestagung der Medien Archive Austria – MAA

5.12. | Leokino, Innsbruck
Adelheid Heftberger: Einführung zum Film Die unglaublichen Abenteuer des Mister West im Lande der Bolschewiki, gemeinsam mit Eva Binder (Universität Innsbruck). Im Rahmen des Polit-Film-Festival 12 – Umbruch und Status Quo

30.11.-4.12. | Kinoproba-Filmfestival, Ekaterinburg
Adelheid Heftberger: Präsentation des Filmprogramms Out of Focus – Archival Treasures from the Collection of the Austrian Film Museum

29.11. | SCALA-Programmkino, Lüneburg
Alejandro Bachmann: Präsentation des Filmprogramms Die doppelte Spur – Film und Kunst und anschließendes Gespräch im Rahmen der Reihe "Filmic Affairs-Schnittstellen zwischen Kunst und Kino" der Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg

28.11. | Cinémathèque Française, Paris
Oliver Hanley: Diskussion und Präsentation des Films Der lebende Leichnam im Rahmen der ersten Edition des Festivals "Toute la mémoire du monde. Festival international du film restauré"

21.10. | Home Movie Day, Paris
Adelheid Heftberger: Präsentation eines Programms mit Amateurfilmen aus der Sammlung
Mehr zu Home Movie Day, Paris

19-25.10. | To Save and Project: The 10th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, New York
Alexander Horwath: Präsentation vier kuratierter Programme aus der Sammlung und rezenten Restaurierungen des ÖFM

15.9. | Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
Alejandro Bachmann: Gespräch mit Hannes Brühwiler über das Ausstellen von Filmen im Rahmen der Filmreihe "Hands on Fassbinder – Diskussionen, Projektionen, Assoziationen"

28.6. | Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna
Alejandro Bachmann, Oliver Hanley: Filmgeschichte im Österreichischen Filmmuseum. Vortrag im Rahmen des Seminars "Präsentation und Distributionsformen von Filmgeschichte" der Universität Zürich

31.3. | Ludwig Maximilians-Universität, München
Georg Wasner: OCEANO NOX – Reflexionen zur Aktualität & Nachzeitlichkeit einer filmdokumentarischen Überlieferung. Filmscreening und Vortrag im Rahmen des interdisziplinären Symposiums "Titanic 1912: Global- und Medienhistorische Echolote" (Organisation: Dr. Nic Leonhardt), Global Theatre Histories Projekt.

2011

9.12.-10.12. | Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Vorträge im Rahmen des Symposiums "museum multimedial | Audiovisionäre Traditionen in aktuellen Kontexten". 
Adelheid Heftberger: Hierarchien von Ausstellungen? Amateurfilme auf Online-Portalen, zwischen Recherche und nostalgischen Bildern<
Markus Wessolowski: Das Unsichtbare festhalten. Ethische Grundlagen in der Restaurierung von Filmen

2.-4.12. | Braunschweig
Alejandro Bachmann, Alexander Horwath: Das Wiener Modell, Präsentation, Diskussionen und vier Filmprogramme beim Kongress der Kommunalen Kinos

29.11. | Museum Tinguely, Basel
Georg Wasner: Rhetorik der Transformation. Vom lyrischen zum partizipatorischen Film: Das filmavantgardistische Umfeld von Robert Breer
Vortrag / Filmprogramm im Rahmen der Ausstellung "Robert Breer"