Film Museum Makes Film
June 30 to July 3, 2026
At the beginning of the Austrian Film Museum, one can find a monumental corpus of films handcrafted by one of the museum's famous founding fathers, a filmmaker-turned-curator. On the other end of our time arrow, we find a similarly monumental film essay reflecting the passions of his worthy successor, a curator-turned-filmmaker.
A closer look at the current diverse crew of enthusiasts who make up the Film Museum reveals that almost half of us not only handle, inspect, preserve, restore, catalog, research, program, promote, dream, think, and write about images, but also manufacture them! The Austrian Film Museum makes films in a myriad of ways. Some do it professionally, others as a late-night hobby. Some remain faithful to analog film, others prefer to advance the digital future. Some strive to remind, shake, jolt, and stir, others to amuse, entertain, explore, or question. Some require hours to introduce the horizons of their vision, others mere seconds. The majority of us direct, while several perform a set of similarly important cinematic tasks like writing, shooting, hand-processing, editing, drawing, painting, singing, performing, or sailing. Some are well-established, others are talents of the future.
But what connects us all is the awareness that all approaches to cinema – from a purely theoretical to a wholly practical one – are different sides of the same coin: the same sincere belief in the transformative power of images, a belief all the more precious in our contemporary era as we seem to be heading in the opposite direction – deconstructing belief and devaluing images via their radical manipulation in a way that has never been easier.
Join us as we celebrate the end of the 2025/26 program season with a small, joyfully, and carelessly composed selection (yes, this series could easily have been three times as large) of our most intimate desires – and let's toast to the upcoming summer break in anticipation of a new season in September. (Jurij Meden)
Unless otherwise noted, the program texts are a collaborative effort.
In the presence of the filmmakers
At the beginning of the Austrian Film Museum, one can find a monumental corpus of films handcrafted by one of the museum's famous founding fathers, a filmmaker-turned-curator. On the other end of our time arrow, we find a similarly monumental film essay reflecting the passions of his worthy successor, a curator-turned-filmmaker.
A closer look at the current diverse crew of enthusiasts who make up the Film Museum reveals that almost half of us not only handle, inspect, preserve, restore, catalog, research, program, promote, dream, think, and write about images, but also manufacture them! The Austrian Film Museum makes films in a myriad of ways. Some do it professionally, others as a late-night hobby. Some remain faithful to analog film, others prefer to advance the digital future. Some strive to remind, shake, jolt, and stir, others to amuse, entertain, explore, or question. Some require hours to introduce the horizons of their vision, others mere seconds. The majority of us direct, while several perform a set of similarly important cinematic tasks like writing, shooting, hand-processing, editing, drawing, painting, singing, performing, or sailing. Some are well-established, others are talents of the future.
But what connects us all is the awareness that all approaches to cinema – from a purely theoretical to a wholly practical one – are different sides of the same coin: the same sincere belief in the transformative power of images, a belief all the more precious in our contemporary era as we seem to be heading in the opposite direction – deconstructing belief and devaluing images via their radical manipulation in a way that has never been easier.
Join us as we celebrate the end of the 2025/26 program season with a small, joyfully, and carelessly composed selection (yes, this series could easily have been three times as large) of our most intimate desires – and let's toast to the upcoming summer break in anticipation of a new season in September. (Jurij Meden)
Unless otherwise noted, the program texts are a collaborative effort.
In the presence of the filmmakers
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